regional

Pluralregionals

1. 1
   of one areaadjective

   Relating to, typical of, or limited to a particular region, whether part of a country or a larger area of the world.

   The festival celebrates regional crafts and traditional cooking.

   Linguists mapped the regional dialects spoken across the valley.

   Similarlocal

2. 2
   nouncountable

   A company, publication, event, or other thing whose reach is limited to a single region.

   She placed second at the regional and qualified for nationals.

   Two regionals now carry most of the passengers flying between the state's smaller cities.

   UsageOften plural, as in advance to regionals. Use it only where the field (sport, airline, magazine) is already clear.

   Note

   A noun formed by using the adjective on its own, with the noun it modified understood. Regional magazines become regionals, and regional carriers become regionals. What it names depends on the field: airlines in travel economics, the seven regional telephone companies in 1985 computer trade press, city magazines in publishing.

3. 3
   country townsadjectiveAustralia

   Of a state or area, referring to the parts that lie outside the major cities but are fairly populated and usually contain several sizable towns.

   Regional communities have pushed for faster internet and better roads.

   The grant program targets businesses in regional districts rather than the capital.

   UsageOften in the pair rural and regional. It contrasts with metropolitan (the big cities), not with national.

   Similarprovincial

   Oppositemetropolitan

   Note

   An Australian usage with an official edge. Year Book Australia sets out Remoteness Areas that run outward from Major Cities of Australia through Inner Regional and beyond.

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