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 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.
The superficial contents of any
figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent;
as, the area of a square or a triangle.
A spot or small marked space; as,
the germinative area.
Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of
thought.
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