Dictonary meaning of area

Answer 1

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.