area

noun areas · areæ

1. A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units. It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.
2. A particular geographic region. 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.
3. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent. The photo is a little dark in that area.
4. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept. The plans are a bit vague in that area.
5. UK An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings. 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.
6. Penalty box; penalty area. Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.
7. slang Genitals. But what do I do when the third one runs at me with his bike helmet on? I got no more hands to protect my area!