Noun
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.
The inclosed space on which a building stands.
The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time. Elvis Costello
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. Benjamin Tucker
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. Nadine Gordimer
Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area. Janeane Garofalo
If there is a rich man in the area three villages are ruined. Korean Proverb
The area covered by your life is not as important as what you can build on it. Swahili Proverb