Usually means: Extent of a surface measured.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. area: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. area: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. area: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. area: Collins English Dictionary
  5. area: Vocabulary.com
  6. Area, area, area: Wordnik
  7. area: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. area: Wiktionary
  9. area: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. area: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. area: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. area: Dictionary.com
  13. area: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. area: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Area (EP), Area (LDS Church), Area (architecture), Area (band), Area (country subdivision), Area (disambiguation), Area (geometry), Area (journal), Area (mathematics), Area (nightclub), Area (subnational entity), Area: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Area: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. area: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. area: Rhymezone
  19. area, area: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. area: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. AREA, area: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. area: Free Dictionary
  23. area: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. area: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. area: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. area: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. area: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. area: Legal dictionary
  3. area: Financial dictionary
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. area: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. area: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AREA: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. area: Idioms
  5. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Area: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Area: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. area, area: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. area: UNCChem Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. area: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Area: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
noun:  A particular geographic region.
noun:  Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
noun:  The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
noun:  (British) An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings.
noun:  (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
noun:  (slang) Genitals.

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