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| Sounds | riy'jhahn |
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| Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2521 more rhymes in ahn... |
| Meaning | The extended spatial location of something. |
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| Examples | "the farming regions of France"; "regions of outer space" |
| Synonyms | part |
| Broader | location |
| Narrower | atmosphere, air; biosphere; depth; interplanetary space; interstellar space; heliosphere; intergalactic space; deep space; aerospace; zone; belt; bottom; county; distance; Eden, paradise, Nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la; extremity; hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno; inside, interior; ionosphere; layer; outside, exterior; radius; side; air; vacuum, vacuity; top; zodiac; sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house; black hole; Kuiper belt, Edgeworth-Kuiper belt; mare, maria |
| Instances | D-layer, D region; Appleton layer, F layer, F region; Heaviside layer, Kennelly-Heaviside layer, E layer, E region; Cynoscephalae; Witwatersrand, Rand, Reef |
| Meaning | A part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve. |
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| Examples | "in the abdominal region" |
| Synonyms | area |
| Broader | body part |
| Narrower | erogenous zone; hypochondrium; area of cardiac dullness; epigastrium; fovea, fovea centralis; parafovea; macula, macula lutea, macular area, yellow spot; cortical area, cortical region; perineum; side; cleavage; areola, ring of color; middle, midriff, midsection; waist, waistline; pubes, pubic region, loins; palm, thenar; thenar; sole; half-moon, lunula, lunule; groin, inguen; quick |
| Meaning | A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth. |
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| Examples | "penguins inhabit the polar regions" |
| Broader | location |
| Narrower | area, country; backwater; breadbasket; theater of war, theatre of war; field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations; zone of interior; district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion; domain, demesne, land; North, northland, Septentrion; South, southland; field; geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region; biogeographical region; heartland; irredenta, irridenta; antipodes; unknown, unknown region, terra incognita; testing ground, laboratory |
| Instances | Old World; Far East; West, Occident |
| Adjectives | regional |
| Meaning | The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'). |
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| Examples | "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job" |
| Synonyms | neighborhood |
| Broader | indefinite quantity |
| Meaning | A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about. |
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| Examples | "here we enter the region of opinion" |
| Synonyms | domain, realm |
| Broader | knowledge domain, knowledge base |
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