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語源

From 中期英語 regioun, from Anglo-Norman regiun, from Latin regiō, from regō. Doublet of regio.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒən/, [ˈɹiːd͡ʒn̩]
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈɹi.d͡ʒən/, [ˈɹi.d͡ʒn̩]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒən/, [ˈɹɪi.d͡ʒn̩]
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒən/, [ˈɹiː.d͡ʒn̩]
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈɾidʒ(ɪ)ən/
• 韻: -iːdʒən
• ハイフネーション: re‧gion

名詞

region (plural regions)

1. 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.

   the equatorial regions

   the temperate regions

   the polar regions

   the upper regions of the atmosphere

2. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
   1. (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.
   2. An administrative subdivision of the European Union.
   3. A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.
   4. (Ontario) Ellipsis of regional municipality, a county-level municipality.
   5. Ellipsis of administrative region.
      1. A subprovincial region of Quebec; the primary level subdivision; a prefecture.
3. (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
4. (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.

   the abdominal regions

5. An approximate range.

   The average age of the club's members is in the region of 35.

6. (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     he is of too high a region

7. (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

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参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “region”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Further reading

• Raymond Williams (1983), “Region”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 264.

アナグラム

• Regino, eringo, ignore, ingoer