morgen

American  

[mawr-guhn] / ˈmɔr gən /

noun

1. a unit of land measure equal to about two acres (0.8 hectare), formerly in use in Holland and the Dutch colonies and still used in South Africa.

2. a unit equal to about two-thirds of an acre (0.3 hectare), formerly used in Prussia, Norway, and Denmark.

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morgen British  

/ ˈmɔːɡən /

noun

1. a South African unit of area, equal to about two acres or 0.8 hectare

2. a unit of area, formerly used in Prussia and Scandinavia, equal to about two thirds of an acre

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Etymology

Origin of morgen

1620–30, < Dutch morgen and German Morgen morgen, morning (as much land as one plows in a morning)

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Example Sentences

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morgen

And is not the proprietor of a few hundred morgen in Germany often richer than the Russian noble who has thousands of dessyatins?

From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace

Instituts zu Halle, 1865, 112 seq., the average farm-rent of the Prussian domains per morgen, and the population to the square mile, amounted: District.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher

He said he reckoned that such land would carry four sheep a morgen.

From Greenmantle by John Buchan

From a morgen of good meadow land, 2,500 pounds weight of hay, according to the best agriculturists, are obtained on an average.

From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Justus, Freiherr von Liebig

Den we gedt oop und maerch und maerch alle night, und in der morgen we hear dose cennon egain, hell oaf der way, far-off, I doand know vhair.

From The Octopus : A story of California by Frank Norris

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