Area surrounded by six sides seen by many people? (5)
I believe the answer is:
viral
'seen by many people?' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs can sometimes mean the same thing.
'area surrounded by six sides' is the wordplay.
'area' becomes 'a' (maths abbreviation).
'surrounded by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'six' becomes 'VI' (Roman numerals).
'sides' becomes 'rl' (abbreviations for left and right).
'vi'+'rl'='virl'
'a' put into 'virl' is 'VIRAL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for viral that I've seen before include "(Of video) fast spreading" , "Relating to a pathogenic agent of disease" , "Of organisms that transmit infectious disease" , "Caused by pathogenic agent" , "Like pathological agents" .)