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say it: ER-ee-uh
area is a noun meaning "a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
“it was a mountainous area”
“Bible country”
a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
“in the abdominal region”
a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
“the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for area come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.