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acre en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈeɪ.kə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈeɪ.kɚ/ (General-American)
• āʹkə (Received-Pronunciation)
• āʹkər (General-American)
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros Proto-Germanic *akraz Proto-West Germanic *akr Old English æcer Middle English aker English acre From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Doublet of agriculture. Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra, “field, plain”).

Meanings

1. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
   • Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands. 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
2. (historical, qualifier:Chester) An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres. ▸ An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
3. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
4. (informal, plural-normally) A wide expanse.
   • I like my new house—there’s acres of space!
5. (informal, plural-normally) A large quantity.
6. (obsolete) A field.
7. (obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m).
8. (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.

Forms

Deriveds

God's acre · Scottish acre · acre-inch · acre-staff · hectacre · Cornish acre · broadacre · stave-acre · Castle Acre · all over hell's half acre · Woodacre · white acre · black acre · West Acre · multiacre · acre shot · acre-land · Whiteacre · acreme · Irish acre · acre breadth · starve-acre · acre's breadth · Fouracre · plantation acre · nanoacre · Blackacre · acreocracy · broad acres · Scots acre · acre foot · long acre · acreless · acred · green acre · acreage · acre brede · acre length · foreacre · acre lengh · acreful · acre-dale · acre's length · Welsh acre · Lehigh Acres · fool's acre · acre money · church acre · acreman · statute acre · geld-acre · tenantry acre · South Acre · acre-foot · English acre · Cunningham acre · acreable

Descendants

acre · 에이커 · ekar · ēkā̀ · ఎకరము · ஏக்கர் · eka · ఎకరా · ഏക്കർ · 'eka · エーカー · ekari · eka

Hypernyms

virgate (the area able to be plowed by two oxen in a year) · fardel · acreme (10 acres, prob. spurious) · carucate (the area able to be plowed by 8 oxen in a year) · hundred (100 carucates, notionally) · nook (the area able to be plowed by an ox in half a season) · oxgang (the area able to be plowed by an ox in a year)

Hyponyms

rood · fall · perch · lug

Relateds

north forty · acorn · Weights and measures · US survey acre · international acre · Hufe · Greenacre · wiseacre

Synonyms

jugerum · stang · Scots acre · morgen · cawny · acair · plantation acre · cover · Scottish acre · erw · juger · feddan · cyfair · demath (approximate) · pose · arpen · Irish acre · Morgen · collop · Welsh acre · arpent · cawney · bigha · Scotch acre · day's math (approximate)

Translations (59)

te ఎకరా (unit of surface area) · ca acre (unit of surface area) · te ఎకరము (unit of surface area) · sh jutro (unit of surface area) · mi eka (unit of surface area) · ru акр (unit of surface area) · de Acker (unit of surface area) · vi mẫu Anh (unit of surface area) · yi אַקער (unit of surface area) · fa جریب (unit of surface area) · eo akreo (unit of surface area) · nv náhásdzo hayázhí dikʼą́ (unit of surface area) · cs akr (unit of surface area) · vo göded (unit of surface area) · yo sarè (unit of surface area) · niu eka (unit of surface area) · pt acre (unit of surface area) · hu angol hold (unit of surface area) · it acro (unit of surface area) · id ekar (unit of surface area) · gl acre (unit of surface area) · yo eékà (unit of surface area) · sh акер (unit of surface area) · pl akr (unit of surface area) · cy erw (unit of surface area) · bg а́кър (unit of surface area) · ang æcer (unit of surface area) · es acre (unit of surface area) · pdt Aka (unit of surface area) · my ဧက (unit of surface area) · uk акр (unit of surface area) · de Joch Landes (unit of surface area) · ka აკრი (unit of surface area) · pt jeira (unit of surface area) · et aaker (unit of surface area) · vi mẫu tây (unit of surface area) · fi eekkeri (unit of surface area) · dsb morgen (unit of surface area) · ckb بەرجووت (unit of surface area) · sw ekari (unit of surface area) · nrf acre (unit of surface area) · sh ral (unit of surface area) · gd acaire (unit of surface area) · de Morgen (unit of surface area) · cmn 英畝 /英亩 (unit of surface area) · sm 'eka (unit of surface area) · fo ekra (unit of surface area) · ar آكِر (unit of surface area) · th เอเคอร์ (unit of surface area) · sh aker (unit of surface area) · ja エーカー (unit of surface area) · ha ēkā̀ (unit of surface area) · de Joch (unit of surface area) · fr acre (unit of surface area) · el έικρ (unit of surface area) · ms ekar (unit of surface area) · ga acra (unit of surface area) · ko 에이커 (unit of surface area) · de Juchart (unit of surface area)