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Definitions for Area

[1] any particular extent of space or surface; part: the dark areas in the painting; the dusty area of the room.
[2] a geographical region; tract: the Chicago area; the unsettled areas along the frontier.
[3] any section reserved for a specific function: the business area of a town; the dining area of a house.
[4] extent, range, or scope: inquiries that embrace the whole area of science.
[5] field of study, or a branch of a field of study: Related areas of inquiry often reflect borrowed notions.
[6] a piece of unoccupied ground; an open space.
[7] the space or site on which a building stands; the yard attached to or surrounding a house.
[8] British . areaway(def 1) .
[9] the quantitative measure of a plane or curved surface; two-dimensional extent.
[10] Anatomy . a zone of the cerebral cortex having a specific function: The damage to Broca's area affected his speech.
[11] any flat, curved, or irregular expanse of a surface
[12] 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
[13] a section, portion, or part an area of the body ; an area of the sky
[14] region; district; locality a mountainous area
[15] a geographical division of administrative responsibility (as modifier ) area manager
[16] a part or section, as of a building, town, etc, having some specified function or characteristic reception area ; commercial area ; slum area
[17] Also called: areaway a sunken area, usually enclosed, giving light, air, and sometimes access to a cellar or basement
[18] the range, extent, or scope of anything
[19] a subject field or field of study
[20] any unoccupied or unused flat open piece of ground
[21] the ground on which a building stands, or the ground surrounding a building
[22] anatomy any of the various regions of the cerebral cortex
[23] computing any part of a computer memory assigned to store data of a specified type

Words related to Area

field, operation, range, space, sector, city, square, neighborhood, zone, locality, section, county, state, territory, township, breadth, distance, stretch, expanse, sphere

Words nearby Area

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Origin of Area

1530–40; < Latin ārea vacant piece of level ground, open space in a town, threshing floor; perhaps akin to ārēre to be dry. See arid

Words that may be confused with Area

area, aria

Other words from Area

ar·e·al , adjective
ar·e·al·ly , adverb

Word origin for Area

C16: from Latin: level ground, open space, threshing-floor; related to ārēre to be dry

Synonyms for Area

field, operation, range, space, breadth, compass, distance, expanse, size, sphere, stretch, width