land area
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2.7
- noun
- /lænd ˈɛəriə/
:
superficie de terreno
- Farmers rely on adequate land area to grow crops and raise livestock effectively.
- total land area
- percent of land area
- world's land area
Examples
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Much land is available for cultivation; of the 6.9 percent arable land area, only 0.1 percent is in permanent crops.
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Java, which constitutes less than 7 percent of the land area of Indonesia, is home to 62 percent of its population.
Academic text (1992) -
Again, very, very small percentage of the land area was was fully settled.
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On average, wildfires burn twice as much land area each year as they did 40 years ago.
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About one third of the land area is devoted to agriculture and one fourth to forestry and timber production.
Academic text (2012) -
So you can see that a significant portion of the land area fits this technical definition of urbanized land.
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Of the total land area within the three-county area, 82.7% is forest land.
Academic text (1996) -
Maryland's population is 3,500,000 people spread over a land area of just 9,000 square miles.
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China actually has more arable land area than the total of 95 million hectares claimed by the State Statistical Bureau.
Academic text (1997) -
In about one-third of the world's land areas regarded as drylands, salt lakes form an important part of the landscape.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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1.0
A part of a place used for a certain activity, like a park or room
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3.9
A piece of land with fixed boundaries for building
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1.9
A small piece of land used to grow plants or vegetables
25
5.6
A large area of land not divided into smaller parts
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1.8
A small area of land that someone owns or uses
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4.0
A piece of land usually measured in acres and used for farming or building
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3.0
A small piece of ground for growing plants or building on
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4.1
A large area of land used for a certain purpose
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2.9
A piece of land sold or owned as one unit
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2.8
An area of land used for something, like a garden or park
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2.3
A small piece of land used for growing plants
A large area of land treated as one unit
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a portion of land used for a particular purpose' is directly and compositionally derived from 'land' (earth/territory) + 'area' (amount of surface within boundaries), so the phrase simply denotes an area of land. This noun–noun combination follows regular English compounding and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Land area comes from a simple image: land is the ground and area is the measured space, like a field marked off with ropes. So it means 'a portion of land' set aside for something, such as building or farming.