Meaning of area in English

area

noun

/ˈeə.ri.ə/ us

/ˈer.i.ə/

area noun (PLACE)

B1 [ C ]

a particular part of a place, piece of land, or country:

All areas of the country will have some rain tonight.

The area of New York to the south of Houston Street is known as Soho.

Houses in the London area (= in and around London) are very expensive.

He's an area manager (= is responsible for business in a particular area) for a computer company.

This is a very poor area.

Dogs are not allowed in the children's play area.

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The area depends on agriculture for most of its income.
Debris from the aircraft was scattered over a large area.
This area of the park has been specially designated for children.
Some species exist in this small area of forest and nowhere else on earth.
There was more rainfall than usual this summer in the mountain areas.

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Geography: areas of land in general

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area noun (SUBJECT)

B2 [ C ]

a subject or activity, or a part of it:

Marketing is Paul's area.

Software is not really my area of expertise.

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Matters of discipline fall outside my area of responsibility.
Electronic publishing is a growth area.
The law in this area is very strict and doesn't allow us much room for manoeuvre.
OK, this seems to be an area of disagreement, so let's vote on it.
The book will encourage research in this very important area.

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Topics & areas of interest

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area noun (MEASURE)

[ C or U ]

the size of a flat surface calculated by multiplying its length by its width:

the area of a rectangle

Meadow Farm is 50 square kilometres in area.

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Mass, area, weight & volume in general

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area noun (FOOTBALL)

[ C usually singular ]

→ penalty area

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Football/soccer

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Surfaces on which sports take place

Grammar

Measurements

We use the nouns length, width, depth and height and the adjectives long, wide, deep and high to talk about area and size: …

Area: length, width, depth and height

We use the nouns length, width, depth and height and the adjectives long, wide, deep and high to talk about area and size: …

Weight and volume

We use the verb weigh to measure weight: …

Frequency, speed, time

We use many different expressions to describe frequency, speed and time. Here are some of them: …

Idiom

in the area of

(Definition of area from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

area | American Dictionary

area

noun

/ˈeər·i·ə/

area noun (PLACE)

[ C ]

a part of the earth’s surface of land and water, or a particular part of a country, city, town, etc.:

an industrial/suburban/mountainous area

[ C ]

An area is also a particular part of anything that takes space:

This area of the brain is called the cerebral cortex.

area noun (SUBJECT)

[ C ]

a particular subject or activity:

His area of expertise includes learning disorders.

area noun (MEASURE)

[ C/U ] geometry

the measure of a flat space or surface:

[ C ] You get the area of a rectangle by multiplying its length by its width.

(Definition of area from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

area | Business English

area

noun [ C ]

/ˈeəriə/ us

a particular part of a place, piece of land, or country:

This is an area of the city where 48% of the properties are rental properties.

Our goal is to grow the total number of jobs in the metropolitan area and to provide the environment for companies to grow and prosper.

the reception/kitchen/parking area

the packaging/trading area

a subject or activity, or a part of it:

Principal growth in the past year has been in the area of new technology in manufacturing and medical settings.

He looked continually for ways to expand his startup firm's area of expertise

See also

assisted area
catchment area
development area
dollar area
the euro area
growth area
sales area
wilderness area

(Definition of area from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of area

area

Cross-cutting subject areas include children and the family, disability, gender, mental health, old age, race/ethnicity and young people.

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The territory of both areas is situated 50 to 140 km from the common state border.

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In general, low prevalences of dirofilariasis were found in areas with high altitude or high wind speed.

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Moreover, high prevalences in remote areas may imply that dog heartworm infection is transmitted indigenously before the import of dogs from endemic areas.

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Superimposed upon these changing weather conditions is the regular exposure of the seabed in tidal areas.

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In our study most patients inhabited rural and suburban areas and usually did not abide by hygiene rules.

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In the present study, most patients were inhabitants of rural and suburban areas (76.2%).

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There were areas of parkland that had no sewers and areas of housing which had no recorded takes.

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We, therefore, restrict ourselves to saying that there tend to be more hotspots in areas of higher manhole density.

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Missing data are from areas that did not participate.

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The patients are usually brought to hospitals at the late stage of illness in the rural areas.

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A total of 600 ticks were caught by sweeping lowlying vegetation of all accessible areas at the zoos with a cotton flag (flagging method).

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Men and women had separate bedrooms, but all other areas were used jointly.

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The open areas between the ribs are 27 mm wide and 100 mm high.

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One of its strengths is the diversity of the contact situations that are discussed, which range from major areas to minor case studies.

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Collocations with area

area

These are words often used in combination with area.

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abdominal area

Using unconditional and conditional standard deviation scores of fetal abdominal area measurements in the prediction of intrauterine growth restriction.

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adjacent area

Yet, at times, it was difficult to see where one cor tical area ended and an adjacent area began.

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affected area

We theorize that more local synaptic inhibition would have similar effects, but only over the affected area.

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Translations of area

in Chinese (Traditional)

地方, 地區, 區域…

Meaning of area in English

area noun (PLACE)

area noun (SUBJECT)

area noun (MEASURE)

area noun (FOOTBALL)

Grammar

Idiom

area | American Dictionary

area noun (PLACE)

area noun (SUBJECT)

area noun (MEASURE)

area | Business English

Examples of area

Collocations with area

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Translations of area

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