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Definition of: region
(rē′jən) noun
1. A portion of territory or space; a country or district; also, realm; specifically, one of the strata into which the air or the sea is divided by imaginary boundaries.
2. A zoogeographical division of the earth's surface: the Australian region.
3. A portion of the body, arbitrarily circumscribed for anatomical and medical purposes: the abdominal region. See synonyms under LAND. [<AF regiun, OF regium <L regio, -onis <regere rule]
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