Ā're-ā, n.
n.; pl. Ā'RE-ās. [Lat. area, a broad piece of level ground.]
Sense 1. Any plane surface, as the floor of a room, of a church or other building, or of the ground.
Sense 2. The inclosed space or site on which a building stands; a sunken space around the basement of a building. Gwill.
Sense 3. (Geom.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Sense 4. (Med.) A disease of the hair, in which it changes color, but does not fall off; also, a form of disease in which the hair falls off in patches, without change in the surrounding hair. Dunglison.