Word of the Day: Area
An area is a location, a place, a neighborhood, or part of an interior or exterior space.
- There are many good places to shop in this area.
- Do you live in this area?
- This is a good area.
- A very famous musician will be in our area next week for a performance.
- The police are searching an area close to downtown for a suspect in a crime.
- The police are combing the area. (combing = searching closely)
- How much area do you need to start a garden?
- There’s an area in our neighborhood where kids like to get together to play frisbee.
- We need to find a good area to go fishing.
- I know of several good areas for camping.
- The office area where I work is a little noisy.
- The waitress said that she couldn’t serve us because our table wasn’t in her area.
Area is an amount of space that can be measured:
- What is the area of this room?
- We’re buying carpeting for our living room, so we need to determine the area of the room.
- To determine the area of a triangle, you multiply the base by the height and then divide that number by two.
Sometimes the word “area” is used when talking about personal knowledge or a field of interest:
- Tom is very knowledgeable in the area of science.
- Theresa enjoys working outside of her area.
- The teacher covered a lot of area in class today.
- I need to become more familiar with this area.
Essential English Dictionary
Visit the Popular English Words Beginning with A page to see the list of all words starting with letter A. For seeing the HiCafe dictionary, visit the Popular English Words with Meaning page.
