Area

1. n. Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
2. 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.
3. n. The inclosed space on which a building stands.
4. n. The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
5. n. An extent of surface; a tract of the earth’s surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
6. 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.
7. n. A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.