Region vs Regions - What's the difference?
region | regions |
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.
the rest of the country excluding the capital city or metropolitan region
* 2000 , Emer Hughes,
* 2003 , Peter Hetherington,
As nouns the difference between region and regions
is that 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 while regions is plural of lang=en.region
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(wikipedia region) (en noun)- the equatorial regions
- the temperate regions
- the polar regions
- the upper regions of the atmosphere
- the abdominal regions
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*Anagrams
* ----regions
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(head)Fair city losing out to the regions'', ''Sunday Business Post 7 November:
- Tom Clancy of Elan Recruitment thinks that staff shortages in the regions could be as severe as in Dublin.
Study points civil servants towards the regions'', ''The Guardian , 10 September:
- Three government departments may be named for a move from London to the regions .
