acre

¹

[ ey-ker ]

noun

1. a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
2. acres,
   1. lands; land:

      wooded acres.

   2. Informal. large quantities:

      acres of Oriental rugs.

3. Archaic. a plowed or sown field.

Acre

²

[ ah-kruh ah-ker, ey-ker ]

noun

1. a state in W Brazil. 58,900 sq. mi. (152,550 sq. km). : Rio Branco.
2. a seaport in NW Israel: besieged and captured by Crusaders 1191.

acre

¹

/ ˈeɪkə /

noun

1. a unit of area used in certain English-speaking countries, equal to 4840 square yards or 4046.86 square metres
2. plural
   1. land, esp a large area
   2. a large amount

      he has acres of space in his room

3. farm the long acre
   farm the long acre to graze cows on the verge of a road

Acre

²

noun

1. ˈɑːkrə a state of W Brazil: mostly unexplored tropical forests; acquired from Bolivia in 1903. Capital: Rio Branco. Pop: 586 942 (2002). Area: 152 589 sq km (58 899 sq miles)
2. ˈeɪkəˈɑːkə a city and port in N Israel, strategically situated on the Bay of Acre in the E Mediterranean: taken and retaken during the Crusades (1104, 1187, 1191, 1291), taken by the Turks (1517), by Egypt (1832), and by the Turks again (1839). Pop: 45 600 (2001) Old Testament nameAcchoɑːˈkəʊ Arabic name`Akkaɑːˈkɑː Hebrew name`Akkoɑːˈkəʊ

acre

/ ā′kər /

1. A unit of area in the US Customary System, used in land and sea floor measurement and equal to 43,560 square feet or 4,047 square meters.

Other Words From

• half-a·cre noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of acre¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English aker, Old English æcer; cognate with Old Frisian ekker, Old Saxon akkar, Old High German ackar ( German Acker ), Old Norse akr, Gothic akers, Latin ager, Greek agrós, Sanskrit ájra-; acorn, agrarian, agrestic, agriculture, agro-

Word History and Origins

Origin of acre¹

Old English æcer field, acre; related to Old Norse akr, German Acker, Latin ager field, Sanskrit ajra field

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. forty acres and a mule. mule ¹( def 11 ).

Example Sentences

Amid the fundraising and growing the business in a pandemic, Menker was intensely involved in efforts to combat the locust swarm that has devastated hundreds of thousands of acres of crops and pasture land in Africa, including her native Ethiopia.

From Time

Public agencies had occupied thousands of acres intended to return Native people to their ancestral lands, paying little or no compensation for decades as the sites were used for military bases, game preserves, schools and other purposes.

From ProPublica

So they have to plant corn, beans, or hay in those acres, and the yields have to come up to the county averages.

From MIT Technology Review

Achieving it could significantly increase Russia’s prosperity and power in the process, through the opening of tens of millions of acres of land and a flourishing new agricultural economy.

From ProPublica

Nuns, and the nearby fires it merged with, went on to burn over 56,000 acres and destroyed more than 1,500 structures.

From Outside Online

“They say they treat the dogs like family,” Schill said, referring to the Green Acre website, which has been taken down.

From The Daily Beast

One woman said her dog came back from Green Acre with unexplained chemical burns.

From The Daily Beast

Ingram first reached out to MaLeisa and Todd Hughes, the owners of Green Acre Dog Boarders, about two months ago.

From The Daily Beast

Yet, as these families would eventually discover, there were 28 dogs at Green Acre at the time of the deaths.

From The Daily Beast

His attempt to boost farm wages, called the Agricultural Adjustment Act, supposedly "plowed under" every fourth acre.

From The Daily Beast

During the siege of Acre he commanded the covering force, and pushed reconnaissances far and wide.

From Project Gutenberg

Nearly every acre I have seen is susceptible of cultivation, and of course either cultivated, built upon, or devoted to wood.

From Project Gutenberg

It has been shown by Chevandrier, that an acre of land under beech wood accumulates annually about 1650 lb.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, the column of air resting upon an acre of land contains only about 15,500 lb.

From Project Gutenberg

Why, child alive, I raked the hay together on three whole six-acre fields!

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• acreage
• estate
• plot
• property