Area synonyms
âr'ē-ə
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A district within which a uniform rate is charged, as by a transportation system
A part of a city, country, etc.; district or region
The definition of a sector is a separate or distinct area or part of something larger.
The state or quality of being neighbors
An unbroken period; continuous space (of time)
(Dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
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The definition of a patch is a small area that's different from what's around it.
(Geology) A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
A state of existence:
(Slang) An area of interest or skill:
A piece of land having specific boundaries, especially one constituting a part of a city, town, or block.
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(Mathematics) The product obtained when a number or quantity is multiplied by itself:
A coin equal to one fourth of the dollar of the United States and Canada.
A section of split logs used as fuel.
The territory ruled by a duke or duchess; dukedom
measure (related)
The act of measuring:
A region or domain
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The extent of a given activity or subject that is involved, treated, or relevant:
(Informal) A neighborhood area regarded by a street gang as its own territory to be defended against other gangs
(Uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
(Slang) Used in combination as an intensive:
(Biology, genetics) Occurring in the same, or in overlapping, territory, especially of species that do not interbreed.
The definition of a realm is an area or a domain.
That part of a declaration in an action that designates the county in which the trial is to occur
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square measure (related)
A system of measuring area, esp. the system in which 144 square inches = 1 square foot or that in which 10,000 square centimeters = 1 square meter
Any sphere of struggle or conflict
An area of particular knowledge or responsibility; a specialty:
(Physics) The path an electron takes around an atom's nucleus.
areas (related)
location (related)
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areas-x94 (related)
corridor (related)
A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.
(Idiomatic) A place or field in which one is comfortable or with which one is familiar.
The full period or length of a contest or game:
An area provided for a particular purpose:
(US) A subdivision of a city or town for the purposes of voting and representation in city or town government. In cities, precincts may be grouped into wards.
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The state of being under guard; custody.
2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30:
A city of eastern Mississippi near the Alabama border east of Jackson. A confederate base during the Civil War, it developed as a railroad junction.
A similar region, as in Canada or Australia, without the status of a province or state
A geographical subdivision of a county, municipality, or similar entity, for political, judicial, or administrative ends; for example, a court district (in which a particular court has jurisdiction over certain matters arising within the borders or pertaining to people who live there) or a voting district (where all the franchised inhabitants are required to vote at a particular polling station).
A sphere of activity, influence, or knowledge:
(Informal) Actual condition; true state of affairs
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The act of spreading or something that has been spread.
(Physics) All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.
Opportunity to advance:
area-the (related)
Selection, array.
Any section of a city in which many members of some minority group live, or to which they are restricted as by economic pressure or social discrimination
In South Africa, a segregated, nonwhite area in or just outside a city
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A geographic region that is distinctive in a specific respect.
A group or company; a pack:
A particular section of a country, state, etc. divided off as for administration
A political subdivision of a British county, usually corresponding in boundaries to an original ecclesiastical parish.
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A name formerly used for certain self-governing nations of the Commonwealth
The realm of this sovereignty.
A state uniting many territories and peoples under a single sovereign power
A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.
Any specific plan, project, venture, etc.
expanse (related)
The definition of an expanse is the distance to which something can grow or expand, or a vast open surface.
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A unit of land area in the FPS system, equal to 4,840 square yards or 160 square rods (0.4047 hectare or 4,046.8564 square meters): abbrev. ac
The office or district of a bailiff.
A nation or state in which there is self-government; democracy or republic
A county is defined as an administrative division of a state or country.
A surrounding area; a background.
An artificial environment created for an animal to live in:
A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
The scene or setting, as of a novel.
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The partly lighted area surrounding the complete shadow (umbra) of a body, as the moon, during an eclipse
The definition of a province is a specific area or location within a country or state that is often a subset of a larger union.
Reach means to extend your hand or arm to touch something, or how far the influence of something has spread.
A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
surface-area
The total area on the surface of a three-dimensional figure.
An area or expanse outside cities and towns; a rural area:
(Colloquial) Any branch of learning, especially one ending in “-logy".
proseminar
A seminar open to undergraduate students of advanced standing
(Uncountable) The concentration of one's efforts upon a particular field of study
subdiscipline
A field of specialized study within a broader discipline; a subfield.
An area of a computer's memory used by the operating system and some programs to store certain variables to which they need frequent access.
The surroundings; the environment.
The space, amount, or degree to which a thing extends; size; length; breadth
A district of a country leased out by a government for the collection of taxes
(By extension, chiefly pejorative) Any organization in the control of a dominant individual.
open space (related)
conurbation (related)
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