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ACRE
Acre, Akko, Akka, Accho
(noun) a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean
Acre
(noun) a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru
acre
(noun) a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Acre
A port city in northern Israel, and the holiest city in the Baha'i Faith.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Acre
A state in North Region, Brazil . Capital: Rio Branco
Etymology 3
Proper noun
Acre
A surname.
Anagrams
• -care, CERA, Care, Cera, Crea, Race, acer, care, e-car, race, race-
Etymology
Noun
acre (plural acres)
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
(informal, usually, in the plural) A wide expanse.
(informal, usually, in the plural) A large quantity.
(obsolete) A field.
(obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (ā20 m) by 220 yds (ā200 m).
(obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
Synonyms
• (approximate): day's math, demath
• (Egyptian): feddan
• (Dutch): morgen
• (French): arpent, arpen, pose
• (India): cawney, cawny, bigha
• (Ireland): Irish acre, collop, plantation acre
• (Roman): juger, jugerum
• (Scottish): Scottish acre, Scots acre, Scotch acre, acair
• (Wales): Welsh acre, cover, cyfair, erw, stang
Hypernyms
• (100 carucates, notionally) See hundred
• (the area able to be plowed by 8 oxen in a year) See carucate
• (the area able to be plowed by two oxen in a year) See virgate
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in a year) See oxgang
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in half a season) See nook
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in 1/4 a season) See fardel
• (10 acres, prob. spurious) acreme
Hyponyms
• (1/4 acre) See rood
• (1/160 acre) lug, perch, (now chiefly Scottish) fall
Anagrams
• -care, CERA, Care, Cera, Crea, Race, acer, care, e-car, race, race-
Source: Wiktionary
A"cre, n. Etym: [OE. aker, AS. Ʀcer; akin to OS. accar, OHG. achar, Ger. acker, Icel. akr, Sw. Ƅker, Dan. ager, Goth. akrs, L. ager, Gr. ajra. *2, 206.]
1. Any field of arable or pasture land. [Obs.]
2. A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.
Note: The acre was limited to its present definite quantity by statutes of Edward I., Edward III., and Henry VIII. Broad acres, many acres, much landed estate. [Rhetorical] -- God's acre, God's field; the churchyard. I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial ground, God's acre. Longfellow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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