regions
- 1Plural of region.
The country is divided into administrative regions, each with an elected council.
Different regions of the brain control different functions.
Note
An ordinary -s plural that keeps every meaning of the singular: tracts of land or sea, areas of the brain, and the administrative subdivisions of the European Union or of Chile. It takes a plural verb (the northern regions are drier). In British and Irish usage, though, the definite article can turn it into everywhere beyond the capital, so 'the regions' may mean more than simply several regions.
- 2The parts of a country outside the capital city or main metropolitan area, taken together.
Investment poured into the capital while the regions struggled to attract funding.
The minister promised to spread civil service jobs more evenly across the regions.
Similarprovinces
Note
A view from the capital: in British and Irish usage, the regions are everything outside London or Dublin, taken as one. The phrase is plural-only and always takes the definite article, so a single county is never 'a region' in this sense. It belongs to policy and business writing, which sets the rest of the country against the capital, as in Emer Hughes's 2000 headline 'Fair city losing out to the regions'.
regions is a form of region
region, noun: A large, connected area of land or sea of indefinite extent, often viewed as a single place for geographic, social, or cultural reasons. Full entry
- Forms
- regionregions plural
- Spelling
- region → regions: add -s
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