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)

Example Sentences

Anthony sold his farm near Wall Street, but somehow secured the deed for 100 morgens of land, or about 200 acres, near Coney Island.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2019

I displaced in village and field the boundary stone, made other ditches and frontier lines, squeezed out of my neighbours some hundred morgens of arable land, meadows, and woods.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav

The Major also held 60 morgens of coarse grazing-land, with a cottage and stables, two miles away on the “veldt” to the north-east of Rondebosch.

From The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa by Percy-Groves, J.

In this river, too, are very beautiful islands, containing ten, twenty, thirty, fifty and seventy morgens of land.

From Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 by Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin)

Incessantly did he endeavour to increase the number of morgens of arable land, and to procure new places for settlers.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav