area
/ˈeːɹi.ə/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.46 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
3
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
noun
An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings.
British usage
noun
Example Sentences
- "It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland."
- "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."
- "The photo is a little dark in that area."
- "The plans are a bit vague in that area."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-der. Proto-Italic *āzeā? Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃-der. Proto-Italic *āreā? Latin ārealbor. English area Learned borrowing from Latin ārea.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈeːɹi.ə/
- British English: /ˈɛəɹi.ə/