regional
/ˈɹi.d͡ʒə.nəl/adjective, noun
regional is an adjective meaning “Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-G-I-O-N-A-L and has 3 syllables, and it appears 52 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does regional mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.
Near-synonyms: intraregional, locoregional
- 2
Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.
regional rainfall patterns
- 3
Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.
Near-synonym: locoregional
- 4
AustraliaOf 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.
noun
- 1
An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce regional?
- UK /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒə.nəl/
- UK /ˈɹiːd͡ʒ.nəl/
- US /ˈɹi.d͡ʒə.nəl/
Regional has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-regional.ogg, En-au-regional.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of regional
- regionals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is regional?
Regional appears 52 times per million words in written English, the 1,941st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate regional?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of regional: Reg'l.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Regional in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to a specific region:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does regional come from?
From Middle French régional, from Latin regiōnālis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).