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# area

«area» in Mova's school dictionary: **how much flat space a shape covers; we measure it in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (area, areas)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Area is how much flat space a shape covers; we measure it in squares, like square meters or square feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#m1)

2) An area is a part of a place, like a play area or a city area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#m2)

3) An area is a subject or a field of study. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

the size of a flat shape: length × width for a rectangle; also floors, gardens and rooms; in geography, the area of countries; phrases «square units», «play area», «picnic area», «local area»

### examples

- The garden is 8 m long and 5 m wide. What is its area? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#x1)
- The area of the room is 120 square feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#x2)
- Each tile covers an area of 4 square inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#x3)
- Find the area of a square with sides of 6 cm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#x4)
- The park has a picnic area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#x5)
- Russia covers the largest area of any country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#x6)
- There is a quiet reading area in the library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#x7)
- We live in a rural area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#x8)
- Count the squares to find the area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#x9)
- Science is her favourite area of study. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/#x10)

### note

Area of a rectangle = length × width, in square units. Trap: do not add the sides; that is the perimeter. Area is in square units (cm², ft²), length in plain units. Doubling each side makes the area 4 times bigger.

### In the corpora

- [A tiger needs a large territory, so saving tigers also saves big areas of forest and all the animals in it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/11/)
- [City foxes are active mostly at night and find food in gardens and bins, so they need smaller areas than country foxes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/7/)
- [Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/5/)
- [Rescue dogs can smell a person buried under snow or rubble and can search an area much faster than a line of people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/8/)
- [Pigs are clean when they have space: they keep their toilet area well away from their beds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «area» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/area/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.