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area
What does area mean?
area (noun): a particular geographic region.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use area in a sentence?
- It was a mountainous area. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce area?
/ˈɛɹiə/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does area come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin ārea.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to area
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “area” mean?
the words of something written
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the specified day of the month
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a particular geographic region
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how long something has existed
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