Zone Area Zəʊn Temperate Twilight Pedestrian Extra Examples

• a war/combat/demilitarized/exclusion zone
• a danger zone
• a pedestrian zone (= where vehicles may not go)
• they have called for a 100-mile buffer zone (= protected area) around the island to protect the seals.

zone

1. an area or a region with a particular feature or use
• SEE ALSO danger zone
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/danger-zone
• a war/combat/demilitarized/exclusion zone
• a danger zone
• a pedestrian zone (= where vehicles may not go)
• They have called for a 100-mile buffer zone (= protected area) around the island to protect the seals.
• an earthquake zone

Extra Examples

• Europe is divided into economic zones.
• Most of the old town is a traffic-free zone.
• Our truck was trapped in the kill zone.
• She stood some distance away from him to maintain a safety zone.
• The internet has become a free-fire zone for conspiracy theories.
• The area has been declared a closed military zone.
• The rebels control the southern border zone.
• The region has been declared an ecological disaster zone.
• This area behind the station is a no-go zone for tourists.
• an industrial zone of factories, warehouses and shipyards
• an oxygen-depleted dead zone at the bottom of the sea
• the neutral zone between the two countries
• Half a million people were made homeless throughout the earthquake zone.
• The agreement provided for a security zone of 80km on both sides of the border.
• The main part of the city centre is a pedestrian zone.
2. one of the areas that a larger area is divided into for the purpose of organization
• postal charges to countries in zone 2

Extra Examples

• All countries in zones 1 and 2 have free incoming calls.
• The ticket may be used on any bus in zone 2.
3. an area or a part of an object, especially one that is different from everything that is around it
• SEE ALSO crumple zone
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/crumple-zone
• When the needle enters the red zone the engine is too hot.
• the erogenous zones of the body
4. one of the parts that the earth’s surface is divided into by imaginary lines that are parallel to the equator
• the northern/southern temperate zone

Extra Examples

• This species is found widely distributed throughout the northern temperate zone.
• the alpine and arid zones of Australia
• The plant grows only in the temperate zone.
• the temperate and tropical zones of South America
• a transition zone between tropical and arid vegetations
5. in a state in which you feel confident and are performing at your best
• SEE ALSO comfort zone
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/comfort-zone
• When I'm in the zone, writing is the most satisfying thing in the world.
6. a state in which things are strange, mysterious or secret; a state that exists on the dividing line between two things
• the twilight world of the occult
• The dissidents lived in a twilight world of hushed voices and secret meetings.
• the twilight zone between living and merely existing
• They lived in the twilight zone on the fringes of society.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from French, or from Latin zona ‘girdle’, from Greek zōnē.