morgen
Americannoun
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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.
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a unit equal to about two-thirds of an acre (0.3 hectare), formerly used in Prussia, Norway, and Denmark.
noun
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a South African unit of area, equal to about two acres or 0.8 hectare
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a unit of area, formerly used in Prussia and Scandinavia, equal to about two thirds of an acre
Etymology
Origin of morgen
1620–30, < Dutch morgen and German Morgen morgen, morning (as much land as one plows in a morning)
Example Sentences
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Her reply confounded me: “Vandaag of morgen, maar U moet belet vragen.”
From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by Brown, J. Irwin
They goed away yester morgen to live where the oxen get grass.
From The Giraffe Hunters by Reid, Mayne
It's a true saying, "heute roth, morgen todt!"
From The Jew and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
In Virginia, upon the lowest calculation, 22 pounds weight of nitrogen were taken on the average, yearly, from every morgen of the wheat-fields.
From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von
Like engel are declined masculine polysyllabic nouns ending in -el, -em, -en, -er, when their stem-syllable is long, as mantel, mantle, ātem, breath, morgen, morning, acker, field.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Wright, Joseph
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