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disaster area

disaster area noun: an area that has been the site of a natural disaster that receives an official designation entitling residents and organizations within that area to receive relief and benefits.

Noun

disaster area (plural disaster areas)

  1. An area that has been the site of a natural disaster that receives an official designation entitling residents and organizations within that area to receive relief and benefits.
    • Much of the central Gulf Coast was declared a disaster area after hurricane Katrina.
  2. (also, figuratively) An area that looks like one that has suffered a natural disaster.
    • Your room is a disaster area.
    • And while our discourse might be a disaster area, the imaginative vistas of the Internet are far more vast than the modest plot of our feeds.2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe

disaster area meaning in Tamil and Arabic

disaster area in Tamil

பேரிடர்ப் பகுதி

disaster area in Arabic

area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster
منطقة منكوبة

Forms of disaster area

pluraldisaster areas

Questions about disaster area

What does disaster area mean?
Disaster area means an area that has been the site of a natural disaster that receives an official designation entitling residents and organizations within that area to receive relief and benefits.
What is disaster area in Tamil?
Disaster area in Tamil is பேரிடர்ப் பகுதி. See Disaster area meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is disaster area?
Disaster area is a noun.
What is the plural of disaster area?
The plural of disaster area is disaster areas.

Words near disaster area in the dictionary

  1. disassortatively
  2. disassortativeness
  3. disassortativity
  4. disassortive
  5. disaster
  6. disaster area
  7. disaster areas
  8. disaster film
  9. disaster films
  10. disaster flora
  11. disaster floras

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disaster area (page history and authors); disaster area (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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