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Region

noun

The extended spatial location of something. Synonym: part. "Religions in all parts of the world" , "Regions of outer space"

A part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve. Synonym: area.

A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth.

The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in 'in the region of'). Synonym: neighborhood. "The price is in the neighborhood of $100"

A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about. Synonym: realm. "Here we enter the region of opinion" , "The realm of the occult"

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Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region

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"Region" Quotes from Famous Books

... us that we keep." Having, in the Ring and the Book, challenged evil at its worst as it manifests itself practically in concrete characters and external action, and having wrung from it the victory of the good, in Fifine and in his other later poems he meets it again in the region of dialectic. In this sphere of metaphysical ethics, evil has assumed a more dangerous form, especially for an artist. His optimistic faith has driven the poet into a realm into which poetry never ventured before. His battle is now, not with flesh and blood, but with the subtler powers of darkness ...

— Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher • Henry Jones

... the more copious evidence of actual remains teach us that these early attempts at sculpture in stone or marble were not confined to any one spot or narrow region. On the contrary, the centers of artistic activity were numerous and widely diffused— the islands of Crete, Paros, and Naxos; the Ionic cities of Asia Minor and the adjacent islands of Chios and Samos; in Greece proper, Boeotia, Attica, ...

— A History Of Greek Art • F. B. Tarbell

... region over which this hurricane swept stood a small cabin. It was occupied by an aged Christian widow, with her only son. The terrible wind struck a large tree in front of her humble dwelling, twisting and dashing it about. If the tree should fall it would ...

— The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young • Richard Newton

... In this region of inquiry no one was more successful than a recruit from distant Australia, by name Richard Hodgson. Hodgson, unlike Sidgwick and Myers and many others of his associates, had not engaged in psychical research from the hope that the truths of the Bible ...

— Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters • H. Addington Bruce

... realising the unlovely details of Mary Ann's daily duties—these things disgusted him more with himself than with her. And yet he found himself acquiring a new and illogical interest in the boots he met outside doors. Early one morning he went half-way up the second flight of stairs—a strange region where his own boots had never before trod—but came down ashamed and with fluttering heart as if he had gone up to steal boots instead of to survey them. He might have asked Mary Ann or her "missus" who the other tenants were, but he shrank from the topic. Their hours were not his, and he ...

— Merely Mary Ann • Israel Zangwill

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