ALL meanings of area
ar·e·a
A a - countable noun area An area is a particular part of a town, a country, a region, or the world. 3
- countable noun area Your area is the part of a town, country, or region where you live. An organization's area is the part of a town, country, or region that it is responsible for. 3
- countable noun area A particular area is a piece of land or part of a building that is used for a particular activity. 3
- countable noun area An area is a particular place on a surface or object, for example on your body. 3
- variable noun area The area of a surface such as a piece of land is the amount of flat space or ground that it covers, measured in square units. 3
- countable noun area You can use area to refer to a particular subject or topic, or to a particular part of a larger, more general situation or activity. 3
- countable noun area On a football pitch, the area is the same as the penalty area. 3
- noun area any flat, curved, or irregular expanse of a surface 3
- noun area the extent of a two-dimensional surface enclosed within a specified boundary or geometric figure 3
- noun area the two-dimensional extent of the surface of a solid, or of some part thereof, esp one bounded by a closed curve 3
- noun area a section, portion, or part 3
- noun area region; district; locality 3
- noun area a geographical division of administrative responsibility 3
- noun area (as modifier) 3
- noun area a part or section, as of a building, town, etc, having some specified function or characteristic 3
- noun area a sunken area, usually enclosed, giving light, air, and sometimes access to a cellar or basement 3
- noun area the range, extent, or scope of anything 3
- noun area a subject field or field of study 3
- noun area any unoccupied or unused flat open piece of ground 3
- noun area the ground on which a building stands, or the ground surrounding a building 3
- noun area any of the various regions of the cerebral cortex 3
- noun area any part of a computer memory assigned to store data of a specified type 3
- noun area a level surface or piece of ground 3
- noun area a part of the earth's surface; region; tract 3
- noun area the measure of a bounded region on a plane or of the surface of a solid 3
- noun area a yard of a building 3
- noun area a part of a house, lot, district, city, etc. having a specific use or character 3
- noun area a part of any surface, as of an organism, or a particular zone, as of the cerebral cortex 3
- noun area scope or extent, as of an operation 3
- noun area any particular extent of space or surface; part: the dark areas in the painting; the dusty area of the room. 1
- noun area a geographical region; tract: the Chicago area; the unsettled areas along the frontier. 1
- noun area any section reserved for a specific function: the business area of a town; the dining area of a house. 1
- noun area extent, range, or scope: inquiries that embrace the whole area of science. 1
- noun area field of study, or a branch of a field of study: Related areas of inquiry often reflect borrowed notions. 1
- noun area a piece of unoccupied ground; an open space. 1
- noun area the space or site on which a building stands; the yard attached to or surrounding a house. 1
- noun area British. areaway (def 1). 1
- noun area the quantitative measure of a plane or curved surface; two-dimensional extent. 1
- noun area Anatomy. a zone of the cerebral cortex having a specific function: The damage to Broca's area affected his speech. 1
- noun area section 1
- noun area tract, region 1
- noun area open space 1
- noun area measurement of a shape, etc. 1
- noun area scope 1
- noun area field of study 1
- noun area building lot 1
- noun area geographical region 1
- noun area A region or part of a town, a country, or the world. 1
- noun area (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units. 0
- noun area A particular geographic region. 0