region

Noun

• a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
  • it was a limited realm of discourse
    
  • here we enter the region of opinion
    
  • the realm of the occult
    

• the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
  • it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job
    
  • the price is in the neighborhood of $100
    

• a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
  • penguins inhabit the polar regions
    

• a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
  • in the abdominal region
    

• the extended spatial location of something
  • the farming regions of France
    
  • religions in all parts of the world
    
  • regions of outer space
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  realm , neighborhood , area , part