- any particular extent of space or surface; part: the dark areas in the painting; the dusty area of the room.
- a geographical region; tract: the Chicago area;the unsettled areas along the frontier.
- any section reserved for a specific function: the business area of a town;the dining area of a house.
- extent, range, or scope: inquiries that embrace the whole area of science.
- field of study, or a branch of a field of study: Related areas of inquiry often reflect borrowed notions.
- a piece of unoccupied ground; an open space.
- the space or site on which a building stands; the yard attached to or surrounding a house.
- areaway (def. 1).
- the quantitative measure of a plane or curved surface; two-dimensional extent.
- a zone of the cerebral cortex having a specific function: The damage to Broca's area affected his speech.
- any flat, curved, or irregular expanse of a surface
- the extent of a two-dimensional surface enclosed within a specified boundary or geometric figure
- the two-dimensional extent of the surface of a solid, or of some part thereof, esp one bounded by a closed curve
- a section, portion, or part
- region; district; locality
- a geographical division of administrative responsibility
- (as modifier)
- a part or section, as of a building, town, etc, having some specified function or characteristic
- a sunken area, usually enclosed, giving light, air, and sometimes access to a cellar or basement
- the range, extent, or scope of anything
- a subject field or field of study
- any unoccupied or unused flat open piece of ground
- the ground on which a building stands, or the ground surrounding a building
- any of the various regions of the cerebral cortex
- any part of a computer memory assigned to store data of a specified type
