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