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region
English
Etymology
From Middle English regioun, from Anglo-Norman regiun, from Latin regi?, from reg?.
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?j??n, IPA(key): /??i?d??n?/
- Rhymes: -i?d??n
Noun
region (plural regions)
- Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
- An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
- (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
- An administrative subdivision of the European Union.
- A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.
- (Ontario) Ellipsis of regional municipality, a county-level municipality, a county administered as a municipality.
- Ellipsis of administrative region
- A subprovincial region of Quebec; the primary level subdivision; a prefecture.
- (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
- (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
- (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
- (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
Derived terms
- region-wide, regionwide
Related terms
Translations
References
- region in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Further reading
- "region" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 264.
Anagrams
- Regino, eringo, ignore, ingoer
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regi?.
Noun
region c (singular definite regionen, plural indefinite regioner)
- region
Inflection
Derived terms
Indonesian
Etymology
From English region, from Middle English regioun, from Anglo-Norman regiun, from Latin regi?, from reg?. Doublet of regio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [re??i?n]
- Hyphenation: ré?gi?on
Noun
region (first-person possessive regionku, second-person possessive regionmu, third-person possessive regionnya)
- region: an administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
- Synonyms: daerah, kawasan
Related terms
Further reading
- “region” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua
Noun
region (plural regiones)
- region
Ladin
Alternative forms
- raion
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regio, regionem.
Noun
region f (plural regions)
- region
Middle English
Noun
region
- Alternative form of regioun
Middle French
Etymology
Latin regi?.
Noun
region f (plural regions)
- region (area, district, etc.)
Descendants
- French: région
- ? Romanian: regiune
References
- region on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regi?.
Noun
region m (definite singular regionen, indefinite plural regioner, definite plural regionene)
- a region
Derived terms
References
- “region” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regi?.
Noun
region m (definite singular regionen, indefinite plural regionar, definite plural regionane)
- a region
Derived terms
References
- “region” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin regi?.
Noun
region f (plural regions)
- region
Related terms
- regional
Polish
Etymology
From German Region, from Latin regi?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r???.j?n/
Noun
region m inan
- region, area, district
- Synonyms: rejon, obszar, dzielnica, obwód, kraina
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- region in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- r?gija (Croatia)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regi?.
Noun
regì?n m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- (Bosnia, Serbia) region
- (Croatia, derogatory) the area of former Yugoslavia
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regio.
Noun
region c
- region, area
Declension
Related terms
- regional
- regionförbund
- stödregion
- Västra Götalandsregionen
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stripe
English
Etymology
From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German stripe, Dutch strippen
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st(?)?a?p/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /st(?)???p/
- Rhymes: -a?p
Noun
stripe (plural stripes)
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- 8 Sep 2019, Peter Conrad in The Guardian, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus
- At first, what mattered was the sparky contents of Sontag’s head; by the end she was best known for the way she wore her hair – that saturnine battle helmet of dyed black, with a single stripe left white at the temple like a Frankensteinian lighting bolt of intellect.
- 8 Sep 2019, Peter Conrad in The Guardian, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus
- (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- persons of the same political stripe
- 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
- Everyone I spoke to had waved flags at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, had camped out for Diana’s funeral and, in some cases, her ill-fated wedding. (No one mentioned going to Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s now all-but forgotten wedding, and yet the awkward truth is that Harry and Meghan’s marriage is no more significant than that one was, in terms of lineage.) Not being a royalist of any stripe, I’d not been to any of those.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow with a whip or stick.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
- Thou most lying slave,
- Whom stripes may move, not kindness!
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Deuteronomy 25.3,[2]
- Forty stripes he [the judge] may give him [the wicked man], and not exceed:
- 1735, James Thomson, The Four Seasons, and Other Poems, London: J. Millan and A. Millar, “Winter,” lines 353-354, p. 21,[3]
- [Tyrants] at pleasure mark’d him with inglorious stripes;
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
- A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- (computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
stripe (third-person singular simple present stripes, present participle striping, simple past and past participle striped)
- (transitive) To mark with stripes.
- (transitive) To lash with a whip or strap.
- (transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
Translations
Related terms
- striped
- stripy
- Stars and Stripes
- striper
- candy striper
- restripe
Translations
Further reading
- stripe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- stripe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- stripe at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Pitres, Presti, Priest, Sprite, esprit, pierst, priest, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, sprite, tripes
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Related to Old Norse strípaðr, stripóttr, stríprendr and strip n.
Noun
stripe f or m (definite singular stripa or stripen, indefinite plural striper, definite plural stripene)
- a stripe
- a strip
Derived terms
- flystripe
- Gazastripen
- kyststripe
- landingsstripe
References
- “stripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Related to Old Norse strípaðr, stripóttr, stríprendr and strip n.
Noun
stripe f (definite singular stripa, indefinite plural striper, definite plural stripene)
- a stripe
- a strip
Derived terms
References
- “stripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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