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regional

/ˈridʒɪnəl/
/ˈridʒənəl/
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Regional is bigger than local and smaller than national. The local weather forecast covers your city and perhaps a few suburbs; the regional forecast gives you more: maybe a slew of counties, maybe the whole state, maybe even several states.

People who write dictionaries like to think of regional as being a precise term, having to do with well-defined geographic and cultural areas within larger nations: like regional cuisines, regional customs and even, in places like the Great Lakes, regional weather patterns. But lots of times regional is fuzzier than that. A regional high school has students from more than one town, but just how many towns depends on other factors — the local political structure, the number of kids in the area, and the like.

Definitions of regional
  1. adjective
    characteristic of a region
    regional flora”
  2. adjective
    related or limited to a particular region
    “a regional dialect”
    synonyms:
    territorial
    belonging to the territory of any state or ruler
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/ˈridʒɪnəl/
UK
/ˈridʒənəl/
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