English English Dictionary

Ardency.

Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim.

Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.

Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor.

Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.

Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.

In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.

The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.

Burning; ardent.

The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.

The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

The inclosed space on which a building stands.

The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.

An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.

Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.

A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.

Alt. of Areed

Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).