Area

·noun The inclosed space on which a building stands.

II. Area ·noun Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.

III. Area ·noun A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.

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

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

VI. Area ·noun 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.

VII. Area ·noun The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.