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Webster 1913 Edition


Area

A′re-a

(ā′rē̍-ȧ; 277)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Areas
(-ȧz)
.
[L.
area
a broad piece of level ground. Cf.
Are
,
Noun.
]
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.
The Alban lake . . . looks like the
area
of some vast amphitheater.
Addison.
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 earth’s surface; a region;
as, vast uncultivated
areas
.
5.
(Geom.)
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.
(Biol.)
A spot or small marked space;
as, the germinative
area
.
7.
Extent; scope; range;
as, a wide
area
of thought
.
The largest
area
of human history and man's common nature.
F. Harrison.
Dry area
.
See under
Dry
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Area

A'REA

,
Noun.
[L. I suspect this to be contracted from Heb. from a root which signifies to reach, stretch, lay or spread.]
1.
Any plain surface, as the floor of a room, of a church or other building, or of the ground.
2.
The space or site on which a building stands; or of any inclosure.
3.
In geometry, the superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; as the area of a square or a triangle.
4.
Among physicians, baldness; an empty space; a bald space produced by alopeey; also a name of the disease.
5.
In mining, a compass of ore allotted to diggers.

Definition 2024


àrea

àrea

See also: area, área, arẽa, and äreä

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Noun

àrea f (plural àrees)

  1. area
  2. are