area

• "it was a mountainous area"
• "Bible country"

Synonyms

• countrya politically organized body of people under a single government; the territory occupied by a nation; the people who live in a nation or country; an area outside of cities and towns; a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)

• "it was his area of specialization"
• "areas of interest include..."

• "in the abdominal region"

Synonyms

• regionthe extended spatial location of something; a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'); a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about

• "his social sphere is limited"
• "it was a closed area of employment"
• "he's out of my orbit"

Synonyms

• spherea particular environment or walk of life; any spherically shaped artifact ; the geographical area in which one nation is very influential ; a particular aspect of life or activity; a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses) ; a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center ; the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
• domaina particular environment or walk of life; territory over which rule or control is exercised; (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined ; people in general; the content of a particular field of knowledge
• orbitmove in an orbit; the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another; a particular environment or walk of life; an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom ; the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball
• fieldcatch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket ; play as a fielder ; answer adequately or successfully; select (a team or individual player) for a game; a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected; a branch of knowledge; the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it ; a particular kind of commercial enterprise; a particular environment or walk of life; a piece of land prepared for playing a game; extensive tract of level open land; (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; a region in which active military operations are in progress; all of the horses in a particular horse race ; all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event ; a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information ; the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) ; a place where planes take off and land
• arenaa particular environment or walk of life; the central area of an ancient Roman amphitheater where contests and spectacles were held; a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments ; a playing field where sports events take place

• "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

• "the area of a rectangle"
• "it was about 500 square feet in area"

Synonyms

• expansea wide scope; the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky
• surface areathe extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary