Helen Fenton

Areopagus: Definition and part of speech

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Areopagus

  1. n. The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars’ Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal

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.

Area: Definition and part of speech

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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.

Areed: Definition and part of speech

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Areed

  1. v. t. To decree; to adjudge.
  2. v. t. To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream.
  3. v. t. To read.
  4. v. t. To counsel, advise, warn, or direct.

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.

Areal: Definition and part of speech

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Areal

  1. a. Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

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.

Areca: Definition and part of speech

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Areca

  1. n. A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.

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.