Area Meaning
/ˈɛəɹi.ə/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
nounA particular geographic region.
Sentence Examples
It is risky for you to go into that area alone.
There is a shopping area nearby.
The remote desert area is accessible only by helicopter.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The residential ____ near the park is quiet and perfect for families.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
There is a large children's play ____ in the middle of the city park.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Latin ārealbor. English area Learned borrowing from Latin ārea.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland."
— 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns:
"Eggimann used a computer algorithm to analyze data from the open-source geographic database OpenStreetMap and automatically detect areas with the superblock potential. He applied this analysis to 5 km x 5 km areas of the city center in 18 different cities around the world."
— 2022 March 8, Sarah DeWeerdt, “Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make a surprising number of cities greener and less car-centric”, in Anthropocene Magazine, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022:
"Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory."
— 2013 September-October, Rob Dorit, “Making Life from Scratch”, in American Scientist:
"The Green-Tao theorem on primes was a similar collaboration. Green is a specialist in an area called number theory, and Tao originally trained in an area called harmonic analysis."
— 2015 July 24, Gareth Cook, “The Singular Mind of Terry Tao”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2020:
"A boy seized it, whom she bribed with a shilling to relinquish his prize, which she was taking home, when it escaped from her hand, and fell down the area of a house."
— 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge, published 2016, page 95:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The residential ____ near the park is quiet and perfect for families.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
There is a large children's play ____ in the middle of the city park.