area

It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.

2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns:

(mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.

The photo is a little dark in that area.

Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.

The plans are a bit vague in that area.

Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.

2013 September-October, Rob Dorit, “Making Life from Scratch”, in American Scientist:

The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.

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.

1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge, published 2016, page 95:

This was so favourably received by the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Richard and Mr. Guppy ran down through the kitchen to catch him when he should be released.

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

A minute later we were both in the area. Hardly had we reached the dark shadows before the step of the policeman was heard in the fog above. As its soft rhythm died away, Holmes set to work upon the lower door. I saw him stoop and strain until with a sharp crash it flew open. We sprang through into the dark passage, closing the area door behind us.

1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans:

(British) An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings.

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.

2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:

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!

2003 October 2, “The One Where Ross Is Fine”, in Friends, season 10, episode 2, spoken by Frank Buffay Jr. (Giovanni Ribisi), via NBC:

даирә

figuratively, any extent, scope or range

επιφάνεια υπογείων

open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement


area

From Old Galician-Portuguese arẽa, from Latin arēnā (“sand”). Cognate with Portuguese areia and Spanish arena.


area

any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.

id-noun

arèa (first-person possessive areaku, second-person possessive areamu, third-person possessive areanya)

arèa (canonical)
areaku (first-person possessive)
areamu (possessive second-person)
areanya (possessive third-person)


area

Borrowed from Latin ārea. Doublet of aia (“threshing floor”).


area

a piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town)

(figuratively) a vacant space around or in a house, a court

(figuratively) an open space for games, an open play-ground

(figuratively) the halo around the sun or moon

(figuratively) a bed or border in a garden

(figuratively) a burying-ground, church-yard

(figuratively) a bald spot upon the head, baldness

la-noun

ārea f (genitive āreae); first declension

ārea (canonical feminine)
āreae (genitive)
ārea (nominative singular)
āreae (nominative plural)
āreae (genitive singular)
āreārum (genitive plural)
āreae (dative singular)
āreīs (dative plural)
āream (accusative singular)
āreās (accusative plural)
āreā (ablative singular)
āreīs (ablative plural)
ārea (singular vocative)
āreae (plural vocative)

Aragonese: era

Aromanian: aryi

Asturian: era, yera

Italian: aia

Ladin: aa

Old French: aire, eire

French: aire

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: eira
Galician: eira
Portuguese: eira

Old Occitan:

Catalan: era

Occitan: ièra

Piedmontese: ajra

Romanian: arie

Spanish: era

Venetian: ara, era

→ Catalan: àrea

→ English: area

→ French: are, area

Norwegian Bokmål: ar

→ Friulian: aree

→ Italian: area

→ Portuguese: área

→ Spanish: área

Of disputed etymology:
* Either from Proto-Italic *āzeā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-e-yeh₂, from *h₂eHs- (“to burn”) (whence āreō, ārā),
* Or from Proto-Italic *āreā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂r-e-yeh₂, from *h₂eh₂rh₃- (“threshing tool”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (ḫaḫḫar, “rake, threshing tool”)), resultative reduplicated noun from verb *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).


area

(geometry) area; a measure of squared distance.

area (indefinite nominative singular)
arean (definite nominative singular)
areor (indefinite nominative plural)
areorna (definite nominative plural)
areas (genitive indefinite singular)
areans (definite genitive singular)
areors (genitive indefinite plural)
areornas (definite genitive plural)

From Latin area (literally “vacant piece of level ground”).