area

area has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. The inclosed space on which a building stands.
• n.. The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
• n.. An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
• n.. The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
• n.. A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
• n.. Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
• n.. a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"
• n.. the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area"
• n.. a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal region"
• n.. a subject of study; "it was his area of specialization"; "areas of interest include..."
• n.. a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country"