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area
Overview of noun area
The noun area has 6 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (620) area, country -- (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country")
2. (72) sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena -- (a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit")
3. (66) area -- (a subject of study; "it was his area of specialization"; "areas of interest include...")
4. (42) area -- (a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants")
5. (32) area, region -- (a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal region")
6. (26) area, expanse, surface area -- (the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun area
6 senses of area
Sense 1
area, country
=> region
=> location
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena
=> environment
=> situation, state of affairs
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
area
=> topic, subject, issue, matter
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
area
=> structure, construction
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 5
area, region
=> body part
=> part, piece
=> thing
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 6
area, expanse, surface area
=> extent
=> magnitude
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun area
6 senses of area
Sense 1
area, country
=> arena
=> bed ground, bed-ground, bedground
=> broadcast area
=> center, centre, middle, heart, eye
=> corner
=> corner
=> disaster area
=> haunt, hangout, resort, repair, stamping ground
=> hearth, fireside
=> hunting ground
=> no-go area
=> no man's land
=> quadrant
=> quadrant
=> rain shadow
=> staging area
=> open, clear
=> free port, free zone
=> anchorage, anchorage ground
=> resort area, playground, vacation spot
=> block, city block
=> retreat
=> safety, refuge
=> danger
=> scene
=> section
=> shrubbery
=> space
=> tank farm
=> winner's circle
HAS INSTANCE=> Bermuda Triangle
Sense 2
sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena
=> distaff
=> front
=> kingdom, land, realm
=> lap
=> political arena, political sphere
=> preserve
=> province, responsibility
Sense 3
area
=> grey area, gray area
=> territory
Sense 4
area
=> aisle
=> auditorium
=> baggage claim
=> box
=> breakfast area, breakfast nook
=> bullpen
=> chancel, sanctuary, bema
=> choir
=> corner, nook
=> court, courtyard
=> dead-air space
=> dining area
=> goalmouth
=> hideaway, retreat
=> layby, lay-by, pull-off, rest area, rest stop
=> nave
=> orchestra pit, pit
=> panopticon
=> patio, terrace
=> press gallery
=> quad, quadrangle
=> room
=> second balcony, family circle, upper balcony, peanut gallery
=> storage space
=> threshing floor
=> turnaround
Sense 5
area, region
=> erogenous zone
=> hypochondrium
=> area of cardiac dullness
=> epigastrium
=> fovea, fovea centralis
=> parafovea
=> macula, macula lutea, macular area, yellow spot
=> cortical area, cortical region
=> perineum
=> side
=> cleavage
=> areola, ring of color
=> middle, midriff, midsection
=> waist, waistline
=> pubes, pubic region, loins
=> palm, thenar
=> thenar
=> sole
=> half-moon, lunula, lunule
=> groin, inguen
=> quick
Sense 6
area, expanse, surface area
=> acreage, land area
=> footprint
=> erasure
=> space, blank space, place
=> space
=> balk, baulk
=> section, plane section
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun area
6 senses of area
Sense 1
area, country
=> region
Sense 2
sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena
=> environment
Sense 3
area
=> topic, subject, issue, matter
Sense 4
area
=> structure, construction
Sense 5
area, region
=> body part
Sense 6
area, expanse, surface area
=> extent
Antonyms of noun area
Member Holonyms of noun area
Substance Holonyms of noun area
Part Holonyms of noun area
Member Meronyms of noun area
Substance Meronyms of noun area
Part Meronyms of noun area
Meronyms of noun area
Holonyms of noun area
Attributes of noun area
Derived Forms of noun area
Domain of noun area
Domain Terms of noun area
Familiarity of noun area
area used as a noun is common (polysemy count =6)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun area
6 senses of area
Sense 1
area, country
> region
=> area, country
=> backwater
=> breadbasket
=> theater of war, theatre of war
=> field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations
=> zone of interior
=> district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion
=> domain, demesne, land
HAS INSTANCE=> Old World
HAS INSTANCE=> Far East
=> North, northland, Septentrion
=> South, southland
=> field
=> geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
=> biogeographical region
=> heartland
=> irredenta, irridenta
=> antipodes
=> unknown, unknown region, terra incognita
=> testing ground, laboratory
HAS INSTANCE=> West, Occident
Sense 2
sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena
> environment
=> context, circumstance
=> ecology
=> setting, background, scope
=> home
=> milieu, surroundings
=> sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena
=> street
Sense 3
area
> topic, subject, issue, matter
=> blind spot
=> res judicata, res adjudicata
=> area
Sense 4
area
> structure, construction
=> airdock, hangar, repair shed
=> altar
=> arcade, colonnade
=> arch
=> area
=> balcony
=> balcony
=> bascule
=> boarding
=> body
=> bridge, span
=> building, edifice
=> building complex, complex
=> catchment
=> coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix
=> colonnade
=> column, pillar
=> corner, quoin
=> cross
=> deathtrap
=> defensive structure, defense, defence
=> door
=> entablature
=> erection
=> establishment
=> floor, level, storey, story
=> fountain
=> house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle
=> housing, lodging, living accommodations
=> hull
=> jungle gym
=> lamination
=> landing, landing place
=> lookout, observation tower, lookout station, observatory
=> masonry
=> memorial, monument
=> mound, hill
=> obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta
=> partition, divider
=> platform, weapons platform
=> porch
=> post and lintel
=> prefab
=> projection
=> public works
=> set-back, setoff, offset
=> shelter
=> shoebox
=> signboard, sign
=> stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium
=> superstructure
=> supporting structure
=> tower
=> transept
=> trestlework
=> vaulting
=> ways, shipway, slipway
=> wellhead
=> wind tunnel
=> honeycomb
=> balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance
Sense 5
area, region
> body part
=> saddle
=> underpart
=> horseback
=> dock
=> ambulacrum
=> withers
=> cannon, shank
=> loin, lumbus
=> hindquarters, croup, croupe, rump
=> gaskin
=> flank
=> thorax
=> apparatus
=> adnexa, annexa
=> area, region
=> dilator
=> groove, vallecula
=> septum
=> external body part
=> structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
=> fornix
=> system
=> ampulla
=> tissue
=> mentum
=> organ
=> venter
=> energid, protoplast
=> process, outgrowth, appendage
=> lobe
=> rectum
=> shoulder
=> torso, trunk, body
=> thorax, chest, pectus
=> breast
=> thorax
=> hip
=> haunch
=> abdomen, venter, stomach, belly
=> dorsum
=> back, dorsum
=> small
=> buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
=> buttock, cheek
=> stump
=> shank
=> shin
=> toe
=> joint, articulation, articulatio
=> loins
=> feature, lineament
=> rudiment
Sense 6
area, expanse, surface area
> extent
=> coverage
=> frontage
=> limit, bound, boundary
=> scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit
=> area, expanse, surface area
=> length
=> depth
Meronyms of noun area
6 senses of area
Sense 4
area
=> structure, construction
HAS PART: foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
HAS PART: plate
HAS PART: structural member
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Sense 5
area, region
=> body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun area
Grep of noun area
amanita caesarea
aquilegia scopulorum calcarea
area
area bombing
area code
area of cardiac dullness
area unit
areaway
association area
auditory area
barbarea
basil of caesarea
bomarea
breakfast area
broadcast area
broca's area
brodmann's area
caesarea
camping area
cargo area
catchment area
combat area
cortical area
dining area
disaster area
drainage area
equal-area map projection
equal-area projection
eusebius of caesarea
excitable area
exhibition area
farming area
force per unit area
frontal area
genus barbarea
genus bomarea
geographic area
geographical area
germinal area
gray area
grey area
land area
language area
launch area
loading area
local area network
macular area
motor area
no-go area
parking area
picnic area
piriform area
playing area
populated area
pyriform area
residential area
resort area
rest area
rolando's area
rural area
salvia clarea
salvia sclarea
seating area
sensorimotor area
service area
sisymbrium barbarea
slum area
staging area
sterling area
storage area
subject area
suburban area
surface area
target area
toxic waste area
urban area
visual area
waiting area
wernicke's area
wide area network
wireless local area network
Grep of adj area
areal
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