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- English Word Arduous Definition Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
- English Word Arduous Definition Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.
- English Word Arduously Definition In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.
- English Word Arduousness Definition The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.
- English Word Ardurous Definition Burning; ardent.
- English Word Are Definition 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.
- English Word Are Definition 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.
- English Word Area Definition 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.
- English Word Area Definition The inclosed space on which a building stands.
- English Word Area Definition The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
- English Word Area Definition An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
- English Word Area Definition The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
- English Word Area Definition A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
- English Word Area Definition Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
- English Word Aread Definition Alt. of Areed
- English Word Areal Definition Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).
- English Word Arear Definition To raise; to set up; to stir up.
- English Word Arear Definition Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.
- English Word Areas Definition of Area
- English Word Areca Definition A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.
- English Word Areed Definition To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream.
- English Word Areed Definition To read.
- English Word Areed Definition To counsel, advise, warn, or direct.
- English Word Areed Definition To decree; to adjudge.
- English Word Areek Definition In a reeking condition.
- English Word Arefaction Definition The act of drying, or the state of growing dry.
- English Word Arefy Definition To dry, or make dry.
- English Word Arena Definition The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand.
- English Word Arena Definition Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life.
- English Word Arena Definition "Sand" or "gravel" in the kidneys.