area.
area; open space; park, playground; plot; threshing floor; courtyard; site; bald spot;
Meaning & usage
a piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town)
ground for a house, a building-spot
a vacant space around or in a house, a court
an open space for games, an open play-ground
a threshing floor
the halo around the sun or moon
a bed or border in a garden
a fowling-floor
a burying-ground, church-yard
a bald spot upon the head, baldness
Where this word comes from
Of disputed etymology: * Either from Proto-Italic *āzeā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-e-yeh₂, from *h₂eHs- (“to burn”) (whence āreō, ārā), * Or from Proto-Italic *āreā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂r-e-yeh₂, from *h₂eh₂rh₃- (“threshing tool”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (ḫaḫḫar, “rake, threshing tool”)), resultative reduplicated noun from verb *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.