Standard Lemma guide

zone

noun · verb · 28 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • General-American: zōn
  • General-American: /zoʊn/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /zəʊn/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -əʊn
  • CMU ARPABET: Z OW1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

Topics: geography, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Any given region or area of the world.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
  • The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
  • Files in the Internet zone are blocked by default, as a security measure.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A restricted category or virtual place.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

Examples

  • The discussion was veering off into a danger zone.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A band or area of growth encircling anything.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a zone of evergreens on a mountain
  • the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A band or stripe extending around a body.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: chemistry, crystallography, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

The strike zone.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Examples

  • That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, skating, sports

Examples

  • Players are off side, if they enter the attacking zone before the puck.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A semicircular area in front of each goal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: ball-games, games, handball, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

A mental state of high concentration and performance; see: in the zone.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Examples

  • I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: American-football, ball-games, basketball, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, networking, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk (an obsolete networking protocol).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, networking, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

A belt or girdle.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: literary

Examples

  • 17th c, John Dryden, 2005, Pygmalion and the Statue, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (editors), The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Five: 1697-1700, page 263, Her tapered fingers too with rings are graced, / And an embroidered zone surrounds her slender waist.
  • 18th c, William Collins, The Passions: An Ode for Music, 1810, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (editors), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 13, page 204, Love fram'd with Mirth a gay fantastic round, / Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound,
  • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I, LV, 1827, The Works of Lord Byron, including The Suppressed Poems, page 565, There was the Donna Julia, whom to call / Pretty were but to give a feeble notion / Of many charms in her as natural / As sweetness to the flower, or salt to ocean, / Her zone to Venus, or his bow to Cupid / (But this last simile is trite and stupid).
  • 1844, Charles Dickens, The life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1865, Works of Charles Dickens, Volume VI: Martin Chuzzlewit—Volume II, page 421, [...] it was the prettiest thing to see her girding on the precious little zone, and yet obliged to have assistance because her fingers were in such terrible perplexity; [...].

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

noun

Meaning 16

The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences

Examples

  • 1835, Charles Davies, David Brewster (editors and translators), Adrien-Marie Legendre, Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, [1794, Eléments de géométrie], page 293, To find the surface of a spherical zone. Rule.—Multiply the altitude of the zone by the circumference of a great circle of the sphere, and the product will be the surface (Book VIII. Prop. X. Sch. 1).

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

noun

Meaning 17

A frustum of a sphere.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

Qualifier: perhaps by meronymy

Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

noun

Meaning 18

A circuit; a circumference.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

verb

Meaning 19

To divide into or assign to sections or areas.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

verb

Meaning 20

To define the property use classification of (an area).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • This area was zoned for industrial use.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

21

verb

Meaning 21

To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, slang

Examples

  • I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

22

verb

Meaning 22

To assign to a restricted category.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • We've zoned each other as friends; we'll never be anything more.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

23

noun

Meaning 23

(anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: zona

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure

Narrower terms: zona pellucida, zonule, zonula

24

noun

Meaning 24

an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: region, part

Narrower terms: buffer zone, buffer, combat zone, combat area, danger zone, demilitarized zone, DMZ, drop zone, dropping zone, kill zone, killing zone, strike zone, tidal zone, Panama Canal Zone, Canal Zone

25

noun

Meaning 25

any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: geographical zone

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region

Narrower terms: climatic zone, time zone, transit zone

26

noun

Meaning 26

a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: topographic point, place, spot

Narrower terms: island

27

verb

Meaning 27

separate or apportion into sections

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • partition a room off

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: partition

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: separate, divide

Narrower terms: screen off, separate off

28

verb

Meaning 28

regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: district

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern

History

Etymology

From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

Across languages

Translations

176 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: نِطَاق (niṭāq) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Arabic: مِنْطَقَة (minṭaqa) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Arabic: مَنْطِقَة — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Armenian: գոտի (goti) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Belarusian: зо́на (zóna) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Bulgarian: зо́на (zóna) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Catalan: zona — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Cherokee: ᎡᎶᎯᎠᏍᏓᏅᏅ (elohiasdanvnv) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Chinese Mandarin: 區域 /区域 (qūyù) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Chinese Mandarin: 區 /区 (qū) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Chinese Mandarin: 地帶 /地带 (dìdài) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Chinese Mandarin: 地區 /地区 (dìqū) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Czech: zóna — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Czech: pásmo — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Czech: oblast — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Danish: zone — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Dutch: zone — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Dutch: gebied — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Esperanto: zono — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Estonian: tsoon — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Estonian: vöönd — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Faroese: øki — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Faroese: sona — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Finnish: alue — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Finnish: vyöhyke — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • French: zone — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Galician: zona — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Georgian: ზონა (zona) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Georgian: ზოლი (zoli) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Georgian: სარტყელი (sarṭq̇eli) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Georgian: არე (are) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • German: Bereich — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • German: Distrikt — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • German: Eingabefeld — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • German: Feld — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • German: Gebiet — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • German: Gürtel — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • German: Landstrich — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • German: Zone — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Greek: ζώνη (zóni) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Greek: περιοχή (periochí) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Hebrew: אֵזוֹר (ezór) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Hindi: मंडल (maṇḍal) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Hindi: क्षेत्र (kṣetra) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Hungarian: övezet — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Hungarian: zóna — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Ido: zono — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Indonesian: zona — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Indonesian: kawasan — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Ingrian: zoona — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Ingrian: raijona — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Italian: zona — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Japanese: 地帯 (chitai) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Japanese: 地域 (chiiki) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Japanese: 地区 (chiku) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Japanese: 場所 (basho) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Khmer: តំបន់ (tɑmbɑn) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Korean: 지대 (jidae) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Korean: 구역 (guyeok) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Korean: 존 (jon) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Lao: ເຂດ (khēt) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Latin: plaga — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Latvian: zona — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Lingala: esika — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Macedonian: зона (zona) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Malay: zon — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Malay: zona — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Malay: kawasan — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Norman: zône — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Dari: مِنْطَقَه (mintaqa) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Iranian Persian: مَنْطَقِه (mantaġe) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Polish: strefa — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Polish: obszar — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Portuguese: zona — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Punjabi: ਜ਼ੋਨ (zon) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Punjabi: ਖੰਡ (khaṇḍ) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Russian: зо́на (zóna) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Russian: по́яс (pójas) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Russian: райо́н (rajón) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Russian: полоса́ (polosá) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Russian: о́бласть (óblastʹ) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Serbo-Croatian: zona — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Serbo-Croatian: prostor — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Serbo-Croatian: područje — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Serbo-Croatian: pojas — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Serbo-Croatian: oblast — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Serbo-Croatian: polje — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Slovak: zóna — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Slovene: cóna — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Spanish: zona — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Swahili: zoni — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Swedish: zon — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Thai: โซน (soon) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Thai: เขต (kèet) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Thai: ภาค (pâak) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Ukrainian: зо́на (zóna) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Urdu: عِلاقَہ ('ilāqa) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Urdu: زون (zon) — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Vietnamese: khu vực — area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc
  • Bulgarian: зона (zona) — baseball: strike zone
  • Catalan: zona — baseball: strike zone
  • Czech: cíl — baseball: strike zone
  • Czech: strike zóna — baseball: strike zone
  • Japanese: ストライクゾーン (sutoraiku zōn) — baseball: strike zone
  • Korean: 스트라이크 존 (seuteuraikeu jon) — baseball: strike zone
  • Polish: strefa uderzenia — baseball: strike zone
  • Spanish: zona — baseball: strike zone
  • Bulgarian: трети́на (tretína) — part of ice-hockey rink
  • Czech: třetina — part of ice-hockey rink
  • Polish: strefa — part of ice-hockey rink
  • Slovak: tretina — part of ice-hockey rink
  • Czech: brankoviště — handball: area in front of a goal
  • Polish: pole bramkowe — handball: area in front of a goal
  • Finnish: huippukunto — high performance phase or period
  • German: Fixierungszeitraum — high performance phase or period
  • Polish: stan uniesienia — high performance phase or period
  • Polish: szczytowa forma — high performance phase or period
  • Bulgarian: зо́на (zóna) — networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records that are not delegated to another authority
  • Catalan: zona — networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records that are not delegated to another authority
  • German: Zone — networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records that are not delegated to another authority
  • Hungarian: zóna — networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records that are not delegated to another authority
  • Khmer: ភូមិភាគ (phuumiphiək) — networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records that are not delegated to another authority
  • Polish: strefa — networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records that are not delegated to another authority
  • Spanish: zona — networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records that are not delegated to another authority
  • Catalan: zona — computing: logical group of network devices on AppleTalk
  • German: Zone — computing: logical group of network devices on AppleTalk
  • Hungarian: zóna — computing: logical group of network devices on AppleTalk
  • Polish: strefa — computing: logical group of network devices on AppleTalk
  • Spanish: zona — computing: logical group of network devices on AppleTalk
  • Bulgarian: по́яс (pójas) — religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church
  • Catalan: zona — religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church
  • Finnish: vyö — religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church
  • Greek: ζώνη (zóni) — religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church
  • Hungarian: zóna — religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church
  • Polish: pas — religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church
  • Polish: pojas — religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church
  • Russian: по́яс (pójas) — religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church
  • Armenian: գոտիավորել (gotiavorel) — to divide or assign areas
  • Czech: rozplánovat — to divide or assign areas
  • Czech: územně rozdělit — to divide or assign areas
  • Czech: rozdělit na zóny — to divide or assign areas
  • Dutch: zoneren — to divide or assign areas
  • Finnish: jakaa (alueisiin) — to divide or assign areas
  • Finnish: rajata pois — to divide or assign areas
  • German: absperren — to divide or assign areas
  • German: verzonen — to divide or assign areas
  • Hindi: मंडल (maṇḍal) — to divide or assign areas
  • Japanese: 区分けする (kuwake suru) — to divide or assign areas
  • Japanese: 仕切る (shikiru) — to divide or assign areas
  • Norman: zôner — to divide or assign areas
  • Polish: planować przestrzennie — to divide or assign areas
  • Polish: zaplanować przestrzennie — to divide or assign areas
  • Spanish: dividir en zonas — to divide or assign areas
  • Spanish: zonificar — to divide or assign areas
  • Armenian: գոտիավորել (gotiavorel) — to define property use classification
  • Czech: rozplánovat — to define property use classification
  • Finnish: kaavoittaa — to define property use classification
  • Hindi: खंड (khaṇḍ) — to define property use classification
  • Japanese: 区分けする (kuwake suru) — to define property use classification
  • Japanese: 仕切る (shikiru) — to define property use classification
  • Polish: rozplanowywać — to define property use classification
  • Polish: rozplanować — to define property use classification
  • Spanish: declarar — to define property use classification
  • Arabic: يسهو — to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • Finnish: uinahtaa — to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • Finnish: pilkkiä — to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • Finnish: sammahtaa — to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • German: mit den Gedanken abschweifen — to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • German: sich nicht konzentrieren — to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • Japanese: ぼーっとする (bōttosuru) — to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • Polish: wyłączać się — to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • Polish: wyłączyć się — to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • Polish: zawieszać się — to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • Polish: zawiesić się — to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • Polish: odpływać — to temporarily enter a daydream state
  • Polish: odpłynąć — to temporarily enter a daydream state