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DISASTER AREA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disaster area mean?
• DISASTER AREA (noun)
The noun DISASTER AREA has 1 sense:
1. a region whose population is affected by a general disaster
Familiarity information: DISASTER AREA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A region whose population is affected by a general disaster
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("disaster area" is a kind of...):
area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))
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