Synonyms for region
ˈri dʒənre·gion

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.4 / 18 votes

1. region

   Synonyms:
   center, citadel, estate, inside, interior, land, territory

   Antonyms:
   barrier, border, bound, boundary, bourn, bourne, confines, edge, enclosure, frontier, landmark, limit, line, marches, marge, margin, term, termination, verge

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1. region

   Synonyms:
   country, clime, territory, district, tract of land, portion, part

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.8 / 6 votes

1. region, partnoun

   the extended spatial location of something

   "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"

   Synonyms:
   neighborhood, contribution, division, role, parting, component, share, function, portion, part, percentage, voice, section, realm, area, piece, office, character, theatrical role, component part, persona, constituent

2. area, regionnoun

   a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve

   "in the abdominal region"

   Synonyms:
   surface area, domain, country, neighborhood, arena, part, sphere, expanse, field, orbit, realm, area

3. regionnoun

   a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth

   "penguins inhabit the polar regions"

   Synonyms:
   neighborhood, area, part, realm

4. region, neighborhoodnoun

   the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')

   "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100"

   Synonyms:
   vicinity, neck of the woods, locality, neighborhood, part, area, neighbourhood, realm

5. region, realmnoun

   a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about

   "it was a limited realm of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult"

   Synonyms:
   neighborhood, area, land, part, realm, kingdom

Matched Categories

1. • Body Part
   • Indefinite Quantity
   • Knowledge Domain
   • Location

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. regionnoun

   Synonyms:
   country, clime, territory, district, tract of land

2. regionnoun

   Synonyms:
   portion, part

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1. regionnoun

   Synonyms:
   district, quarter, locality, neighborhood, vicinity

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1. List of paraphrases for "region":

   area, regional, regions, regione, région, regio, district, areas, zone, territory, districts, subregion

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1. State Mike Pompeo:

   He (Soleimani) was actively plotting in the region to take actions - a big action as he described it - that would have put dozens if not hundreds of American lives at risk. We know it was imminent.

2. Nikki Haley:

   Venezuela is an increasingly violent narco-state that threatens the region, the hemisphere, and the world.

3. Chief Economist Fatih Birol:

   The security problems caused by Daesh (IS) and others are creating a major challenge for the new investments in the Middle East and if those investments are not made today we will not see that badly needed production growth around the 2020s, the appetite for investments in the Middle East is close to zero, mainly as a result of the unpredictability of the region.

4. Shunichi Murata:

   The Asia-Pacific region is also in the midst of the largest and most consequential urban transformation in history.

5. Randall Cerveny:

   But these findings are also important to the general public as a stark reminder that lightning can strike far away from the parent source region.