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area
[ air-ee-uh ]
noun
- any particular extent of space or surface; part:
the dark areas in the painting;
the dusty area of the room.
- a geographical region; tract: the unsettled areas along the frontier.
the Chicago area;
the unsettled areas along the frontier.
- any section reserved for a specific function: the dining area of a house.
the business area of a town;
the dining area of a house.
- extent, range, or scope:
inquiries that embrace the whole area of science.
- field of study, or a branch of a field of study:
Related areas of inquiry often reflect borrowed notions.
- a piece of unoccupied ground; an open space.
- the space or site on which a building stands; the yard attached to or surrounding a house.
- British. areaway ( def 1 ).
- the quantitative measure of a plane or curved surface; two-dimensional extent.
- Anatomy. a zone of the cerebral cortex having a specific function:
The damage to Broca's area affected his speech.
area
/ ˈɛəɪə /
noun
- any flat, curved, or irregular expanse of a surface
- the extent of a two-dimensional surface enclosed within a specified boundary or geometric figure
the area of Ireland
the area of a triangle
- the two-dimensional extent of the surface of a solid, or of some part thereof, esp one bounded by a closed curve
the area of a sphere
- a section, portion, or part
an area of the sky
an area of the body
- region; district; locality
a mountainous area
- a geographical division of administrative responsibility
- ( as modifier )
area manager
- a part or section, as of a building, town, etc, having some specified function or characteristic
reception area
commercial area
slum area
- Also calledareaway a sunken area, usually enclosed, giving light, air, and sometimes access to a cellar or basement
- the range, extent, or scope of anything
- a subject field or field of study
- any unoccupied or unused flat open piece of ground
- the ground on which a building stands, or the ground surrounding a building
- anatomy any of the various regions of the cerebral cortex
- computing any part of a computer memory assigned to store data of a specified type
area
- The extent of a surface or plane figure as measured in square units.
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ·· adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of area1
Idioms and Phrases
see gray area .Example Sentences
Acosta had posted bail but was not in the area at the time, according to the Santa Ana Police Department.
Since 2008, the Australian government's Closing the Gap strategy has sought to reduce levels of Indigenous disadvantage through the annual tracking of 18 key measures in areas such as health and education.
None of the 46 areas assessed were found to be making "good" progress in adapting to climate change.
The proposed development – which would be one of the largest in the world – consists of up to 307 turbines across an area four times the size of Edinburgh.
When the BBC World Service Eye Investigations team visited the area, Turkish aircraft pummelled the mountains surrounding the village to root out PKK militants, who have long operated from caves and tunnels in northern Iraq.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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