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noun

Area n. (pl. areas)

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."

The inclosed space on which a building stands.

The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.

An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.

(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.

(Biol.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.

Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought. "The largest area of human history and man's common nature."

Dry area. See under Dry.

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Etymology of 'Area'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Area" Quotes from Famous Books

... missionaries and Christian influences, except in the brief summary for which Mr. Tylor found room. In this work I only take a handful of cases of the higher religious opinions of savages, and set them side by side for purposes of comparison. Much more remains to be done in this field. But the area covered is wide, the evidence is the best attainable, and it seems proved beyond doubt that savages have 'felt after' a conception of a Creator much higher than that for which they commonly get credit. Now, if that conception is original, or is very early (and nothing in it suggests lateness ...

— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang

... water had to be exhausted, in the building of the Opera. To give an idea of the amount of water that was pumped up, I can tell the reader that it represented the area of the courtyard of the Louvre and a height half as deep again as the towers of Notre Dame. And nevertheless the engineers had to ...

— The Phantom of the Opera • Gaston Leroux

... time as the great vindicator of humanity, doubled the area of the national possession of his time by the Louisiana purchase, and Lewis and Clarke, both sons of the Old Dominion, in 1804 first trod the vast uninhabited wilds of the far Northwest to find a land richer in all the precious products of the East ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various

... Man as an animal is not the equal of a good many of the other animals in the world. He is not as swift as the deer, he is not as strong as the lion, he cannot fly in the air like a bird, he cannot live in the sea like the fishes. He is restricted to the comparatively contracted area of the surface of the land. He is not as perfect as an animal; but what has evolution done? It has given him power of conquest over all these, because the evolutionary force has left the bodily structure, we need expect no more marked changes there, and has ...

— Our Unitarian Gospel • Minot Savage

... situated in a small valley, many hundred feet above the level of the sea, and are of about fifteen or twenty acres in area, surrounded by small hills, covered with foliage to their summits: at one end of the Valley is the hotel, with the large dining-room for all the visitors. Close to the hotel, but in another building, in the ...

— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

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