Area

1. Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
2. A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
3. The inclosed space on which a building stands.
4. An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
5. 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.
6. The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
7. The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.