Affection, often excessive, for one's own region and to everything related to it. / (politics) The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to regional governments.

plural of regionalism

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.

Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district. / Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region. / Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.

An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.

plural of region

(Ireland, Britain, definite: the regions) the rest of the country excluding the capital city or metropolitan region

In a large but limited area, more than local but smaller than entirety. (Generally smaller than a nation.)

The property of being regional.

(transitive) To divide into or organize according to regions. / (transitive) To administer on a regional basis.