Definitions for area

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area ar·e·a

Spelling: [air-ee-uh]

IPA: /ˈɛər i ə/

Area is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in area (aaer).

Definitions for area

noun

1. any particular extent of space or surface; part:
2. a geographical region; tract:
3. any section reserved for a specific function:
4. extent, range, or scope:
5. field of study, or a branch of a field of study:
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:

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

Examples for area

Take two aeroplanes of marked difference in area of surface.

The direction of the wind is from the area of high barometer to that of low.

His neighbors include some of the other designer outposts one finds speckled around the area.

In April, 2151, I set up my laboratory on the edge of the area of death.

As he drove me back to the logging road, Frank told me about the area in his deep voice.

But Balbus expressly said that the walk "used up the whole of the area."

The area is 98 percent white, and the Klan has a strong foothold even to this very day.

Some thunderstorms were in the area, according to weather reports.

Historically the reelection rate for members of Congress is in the area of 95 percent.

It was well away from the area where the men had fought the flames.