n. - Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
n. - The inclosed space on which a building stands.
n. - The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
n. - An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
n. - The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
n. - A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
n. - Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.