meaning of area
1. Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
2. The inclosed space on which a building stands.
3. The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
4. An extent of surface; a tract of the earths surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
5. The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
6. A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
7. Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
8. a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for
">servants"
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