Regime vs Region - What's the difference?
regime | region |
Mode of rule or management.
A form of government, or the government in power (as in a socialist regime).
A period of rule.
A regulated system; a regimen.
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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.
As nouns the difference between regime and region
is that regime is mode of rule or management while region is 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.regime
English
(wikipedia regime)Alternative forms
*Noun
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Usage notes
* This word is often used as a pejorative.Derived terms
* exercise regime * political regime * regime changeExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----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