Region vs Chorographer - What's the difference?
region | chorographer |
Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
Someone who describes a particular region or country.
*, New York, 2001, pp.107-8:
*:A chorographer of oursgives no other reason but this, luxus omnia dissipavit , riot hath consumed all.
As nouns the difference between region and chorographer
is that region is region; area while chorographer is someone who describes a particular region or country.region
English
Noun
(wikipedia region) (en noun)- the equatorial regions
- the temperate regions
- the polar regions
- the upper regions of the atmosphere
- the abdominal regions
