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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
/ ˈɛə°ùɪə /
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
/ â°ù′ŧ-É™ /
- The extent of a surface or plane figure as measured in square units.
Derived Forms
- ˈ²¹°ù±ð²¹±ô, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²¹°ù·±ð·²¹±ô adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of area1
Idioms and Phrases
see gray area .Example Sentences
After Friday's practice sessions, loose, dried grass was removed from affected areas and the FIA said that the grass would be dampened and response teams stationed around the track.
She hoped bringing Megan up in a quieter area would keep her safe - but instead, her drug use would spiral out of control in the coastal town.
“Since becoming Sheriff, violent crime has fallen every year in the areas patrolled by LASD, and 2024 saw the fewest number of homicides in the past five years,†he said.
When asked by Cain why they don't choose other ways to make money, one man talked about the lack of jobs in the area.
Her eldest daughter did some digging and found a copy of all the births registered in the local area on the day her mother was born.
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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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