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# region

«region» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large area of land or of a country, with its own…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a region, regions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A region is a large area of land or of a country, with its own features, such as a type of weather, plants or people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/region/#m1)

2) A part of the body: the lower back region. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/region/#m2)

3) In maths, an area or space on a diagram, for example the parts of a Venn diagram. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/region/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in geography lessons: polar regions, desert regions, regions of a country. In maths: sorting numbers into regions of a Venn or Carroll diagram. Phrase: "in the region of" means "about" (in the region of 100 = about 100).

### examples

- The Arctic is a cold region. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/region/#x1)
- Wine is made in this region of France. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/region/#x2)
- Which region of the country do you live in? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/region/#x3)
- Put the number in the correct region of the Venn diagram. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/region/#x4)
- The cost will be in the region of fifty pounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/region/#x5)
- Rainforests grow in tropical regions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/region/#x6)
- He felt pain in his stomach region. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/region/#x7)
- The region round the little town of Kjoge is very bleak and cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/region/#x8)

### note

Countable. Adjective: regional. "In the region of" = approximately, important in estimates.

### In the corpora

- [Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back in reserves in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/11/)
- [Under the Mughals India was one of the richest regions in the world, famous for its cotton cloth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/9/)
- [Until the 1700s almost all the world's diamonds came from India, from the Golconda region.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/11/)
- [A magnet can pull a paper clip across the table without touching it, through an invisible region around it called its magnetic field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching/0/)
- [A biome is a large region with its own climate, plants and animals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «region» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/region/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.