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re⋅gion⋅al

  [ree-juh-nl]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
2. of or pertaining to a particular region, district, area, or part, as of a country; sectional; local: regional differences in pronunciation.
3. Medicine/Medical, Anatomy. pertaining to, affecting, or localized in a particular area or part of the body: regional anesthesia.
4. having, exhibiting, or characterized by regionalism: He writes regional novels.
–noun
5. Often, regionals. a regional competition or tournament: The basketball team won the regionals.
6. a regional company, branch, stock exchange, etc.: Regionals are getting stiff competition from the national firms.
Origin:
1645–55; < L regiōnālis. See region, -al 1

Related forms:
re⋅gion⋅al⋅ly, adverb
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re·gion·al   (rē'jə-nəl)   
adj.  
  1. Of or relating to a large geographic region.
  2. Of or relating to a particular region or district.
  3. Of or affecting a region of the body: regional pain.
  4. Of or characteristic of a form of a language that is distributed in identifiable geographic areas and differs in pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary from the standard form; dialectal.
n.  Something, such as a magazine or a company branch, that serves a region: "earlier attempts to launch glossy regionals for women" (Business Week).
re'gion·al·ly adv.
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Regional

Re"gion*al\ (-al), a. Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
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Language Translation for : Regional
Spanish: regional,
German: regional,
Japanese: 地方の
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Main Entry: re·gion·al
Pronunciation: 'rEj-&n-&l, -n&l
Function: adjective
: of, relating to, or affecting a particularbodily region : LOCALIZED regional block> <regional blood flow inthe white and gray matter —A. N. Sandler & C. H. Tator> —re·gion·al·ly /-E/ adverb
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regional re·gion·al (rē'jə-nəl)
adj.
Of or relating to a region.

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