Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to or characteristic of a specific geographical area: Describes something that is connected to, exists in, or is typical of a particular region, rather than being national or global in scope.
   • Limited in scope or effect to a particular area: Indicates that something applies only within a defined part of a country or the world.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The company's success was driven by strong regional sales. (The company's success was not nationwide but concentrated in specific areas.)
  • They studied the regional variations in climate across the continent. (They examined how climate differs from one area of the continent to another.)
  • This is a regional specialty you won't find in other parts of the country. (This food or product is unique to this specific area.)

Advanced Usage

• "Regional cooperation": Collaboration between different areas or provinces within a larger territory.
  • The two states entered into a regional cooperation agreement to manage water resources.
• "Regional autonomy": The power of a region to govern itself independently to some degree.
  • The new law granted greater regional autonomy to the province.
• "Regional disparity": A difference in economic or social conditions between different areas.
  • The government's policy aims to reduce regional disparities in wealth.

Variants and Related Words

• Region (n): A large, usually continuous part of a surface, space, or body, especially of the earth.
  • The mountainous region is sparsely populated.
• Regionally (adv): In a way that relates to a region.
  • The product is distributed regionally, not nationally.
• Regionalism (n): A word, custom, or other feature peculiar to or characteristic of a specific region; also, political emphasis on regional interests.
  • The author's use of regionalism gives the novel an authentic local flavor.

Synonyms

• Local: Pertaining to or characteristic of a particular place or neighborhood, often on a smaller scale than "regional."
• Provincial: Relating to the provinces outside the capital; can sometimes imply being unsophisticated.
• Territorial: Relating to the ownership or control of an area of land.

Antonyms

• National: Relating to or characteristic of a whole nation.
• Global: Relating to the whole world; worldwide.
• Universal: Applicable to all cases or present everywhere.

Related Phrases

• Regional accent: A way of pronouncing words that is characteristic of a particular geographical area.
  • Her regional accent revealed she was from the southern part of the country.
• Regional headquarters: The main offices of a company for a specific geographical area.
  • The corporation established its Asian regional headquarters in Singapore.

Adjective

1. related or limited to a particular region
   • a regional dialect
2. characteristic of a region
   • regional flora