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regional en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɹiːd͡ʒ.nəl/ (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒə.nəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˈɹɪid͡ʒ.nəl] (Australia)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈɹiːd͡ʒ.nəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈɹid͡ʒ.nəl/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒə.nəl/ (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈɹi.d͡ʒə.nəl/ (Canada, General-American)
  • rē′-jə-nəl
  • /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒnəl/ (Australia)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒə.nəl/ (Australia)
  • [ˈɹɪi.d͡ʒə.nəl] (Australia)

Etymology

From Middle French régional, from Latin regiōnālis.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.
    • Near-synonyms: intraregional, locoregional
    • regional playoffs
  2. (not-comparable) Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.
    • regional rainfall patterns
    • regional language variation
  3. (not-comparable) Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.
    • regional nerve block
    • regional symptoms
    • Near-synonym: locoregional
  4. (Australia, not-comparable) Of a state or other geographic area, denoting those parts that are not metropolitan but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.
    • HEMA produces four-wheel-drive and motorbike road atlases and many regional four-wheel-drive maps—good if you plan to go off the trails—an atlas of Australia′s national parks, and maps to Kakadu and Lamington national parks. 2011, Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson, Frommer′s Australia 2011, unnumbered page:
    • The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural and regional Australia. 2005, Joy McCann, “Chapter 3: History and Memory in Australia′s Wheatlands”, in Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie, editors, Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia, page 03-1:
    • The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory. 1988, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia, volume Issue 71, page 94:

Antonyms

bodywide · systemic

Coordinates

transregional · countrywide · local · localized · local · nationwide · interregional · federal · national · localized · municipal

Deriveds

intraregional · regional lockout · regional jet · socioregional · superregional · supraregional · Capital Regional District · regionally · transregional · georegional · regional Mexican · biregional · microregional · nonregional · triregional · regional county municipality · regional metamorphism · multiregional · subacute regional lymphadenitis · regionalness · regional converter · interregional · regional power · regionalism · bioregional · regional municipality · inter-regional · regional insourcing · regionality · regionalise · extraregional · ecoregional · regional economics · regionalist · complex regional pain syndrome · midregional · regionalize · panregional · megaregional · macroregional · aregional

Synonyms

locoregional · locoregional · diatopic · intraregional

Translations (61)

cs oblastní (pertaining to a specific region) · ks मक़ामी (pertaining to a specific region) · an rechional (pertaining to a specific region) · nl gewestelijk (pertaining to a specific region) · mwl regional (pertaining to a specific region) · es regional (pertaining to a specific region) · co regiunale (pertaining to a specific region) · tl panrehiyon (pertaining to a specific region) · ru региона́льный (pertaining to a specific region) · roa-leo rexonal (pertaining to a specific region) · sv regional (pertaining to a specific region) · ext rehional (pertaining to a specific region) · pt regional (pertaining to a specific region) · de regional (pertaining to a specific region) · uk регіона́льний (pertaining to a specific region) · bn আঞ্চলিক (pertaining to a specific region) · hi प्रदेशीय (pertaining to a specific region) · gl rexional (pertaining to a specific region) · ca regional (pertaining to a specific region) · hi क्षेत्रीय (pertaining to a specific region) · tl rehiyonal (pertaining to a specific region) · mn бүс нутгийн (pertaining to a specific region) · fax regional (pertaining to a specific region) · hu regionális (pertaining to a specific region) · fr régional (pertaining to a specific region) · ml പ്രാദേശിക (pertaining to a specific region) · cs regionální (pertaining to a specific region) · hi प्रदेशी (pertaining to a specific region) · mr प्रादेशिक (pertaining to a specific region) · bg региона́лен (pertaining to a specific region) · ast rexonal (pertaining to a specific region) · hi आंचलिक (pertaining to a specific region) · hi प्रादेशिक (pertaining to a specific region) · ka რეგიონული (pertaining to a specific region) · it regionale (pertaining to a specific region) · ks مَقامی (pertaining to a specific region) · tl danayin (pertaining to a specific region) · ja 地域的 (pertaining to a specific region) · nl regionaal (pertaining to a specific region) · fi alueellinen (pertaining to a specific region) · kmr deverî (pertaining to a specific region) · kk аймақтық (pertaining to a specific region) · nb regional (pertaining to a specific region) · oc regional (pertaining to a specific region) · kmr herêmî (pertaining to a specific region) · hy տարածաշրջանային (pertaining to a specific region) · id regional (pertaining to a specific region) · ar إِقْلِيمِيّ (pertaining to a specific region) · hu helyközi (pertaining to a specific region) · bg местен (pertaining to a specific region) · hu területi (pertaining to a specific region) · et piirkondlik (pertaining to a specific region) · nn regional (pertaining to a specific region) · ar جِهَوِيّ (pertaining to a specific region) · sk regionálny (pertaining to a specific region) · ms serantau (pertaining to a specific region) · gv ardjynagh (pertaining to a specific region) · hu térségi (pertaining to a specific region) · be рэгіяна́льны (pertaining to a specific region) · el τοπικός (pertaining to a specific region) · pl regionalny (pertaining to a specific region)

regional en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɹiːd͡ʒ.nəl/ (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒə.nəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˈɹɪid͡ʒ.nəl] (Australia)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈɹiːd͡ʒ.nəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈɹid͡ʒ.nəl/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒə.nəl/ (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈɹi.d͡ʒə.nəl/ (Canada, General-American)
  • rē′-jə-nəl
  • /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒnəl/ (Australia)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒə.nəl/ (Australia)
  • [ˈɹɪi.d͡ʒə.nəl] (Australia)

Etymology

From Middle French régional, from Latin regiōnālis.

Meanings

  1. An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.
    • In the CPE^([Customer Premises Equipment]) market, all seven regionals are selling several sizes of private branch exchanges (PBX) and key systems for smaller customers. 1985 March 11, James Connolly, “CPE big item on regionals′ omnivorous market menu”, in Computerworld, page 125:
    • Regional magazines are general interest publications for readers who live in a particular area of the country. Most major cities have their own regionals: New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Miami […] 2006, Franklynn Peterson, Judi Kesselman-Turkel, The Magazine Writer′s Handbook, page 12:
    • Regionals are among the fastest growing companies and, as the name implies, are those carriers that for the most part provide service to only one region of the country and generate revenue of under $100 million. 2001, Harold L. Vogel, Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis, page 44:

Forms

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