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Webster 1913 Edition
Acre
A′cre
,Noun.
[OE.
aker
, AS. æcer
; akin to OS. accar
, OHG. achar
, Ger. acker
, Icel. akr
, Sw. åker
, Dan. ager
, Goth. akrs
, L. ager
, Gr. [GREEK], Skr. 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.
☞ 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,
The burial ground,
God's acre
. Longfellow.
Webster 1828 Edition
Acre
ACRE
,Noun.
1.
A quantity of land, containing 160 square rods or perches or 4840 square yards. This is the English statute acre. The acre of Scotland contains 6150 2-5 square yards. The French arpent is nearly equal to the Scottish acre, about a fifth larger than the English. The Roman juger was 3200 square yards.2.
In the Mogul's dominions, acre is the same as lack, or 100,00 rupees, equal to 12,500 sterling, or $55,500..Acre-fight, a sort of duel in the open field, formerly fought by English and Scotch combatants on their frontiers.
Acre-tax, a tax on land in England, at a certain sum for each acre, called also acre-shot.
Definition 2024
Acre
Acre
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: āʹkə, äʹkə, IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.kə/, /ˈɑː.kə/
Proper noun
Acre
- A port city in northern Israel and holiest city in the Baha'i Faith.
Translations
city
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: äʹkrə, IPA(key): /ˈɑː.krə/
Proper noun
Acre
- A state in the North Region of Brazil, whose capital is Rio Branco.
Translations
Etymology 3
Proper noun
Acre
- A surname.
Anagrams
Portuguese
Proper noun
Acre f
Quotations
For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Acre.
Proper noun
Acre m
- Acre (a state in the North Region of Brazil; capital: Rio Branco)
Quotations
For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Acre.
acre
acre
English
Alternative forms
- aker (archaic)
Noun
acre (plural acres)
- (obsolete) A field.
- 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.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
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- Similar units of area in other systems.
- (informal, usually plural) A wide expanse.
- I like my new house - there’s acres of space!
- (informal, usually plural) A large quantity.
- (obsolete) The acre's breadth or length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) or 220 yrds (≈200 m).
- (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
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 ¼ a season) See fardel
- (10 acres, prob. spurious) acreme
Synonyms
- (approximate): day's math, demath
- (Egyptian): feddan
- Template:Sense 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
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from acre
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Related terms
Translations
unit of surface area
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See also
- international acre
- north forty
- US survey acre
- Weights and measures
- Wikipedia article on the acre
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /akʁ/
Noun
acre f (plural acres)
- (historical) acre
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
From Latin ācre, neuter nominative singular of ācer (“sharp”). Doublet of agro.
Adjective
acre m, f (masculine and feminine plural acri)
Related terms
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
ācre
- neuter nominative singular of ācer
- neuter accusative singular of ācer
- neuter vocative singular of ācer
References
- acre in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “acre”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- acre in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈa.kɾɨ/
- Hyphenation: a‧cre
Etymology 1
From Latin ācre, neuter nominative singular of ācer (“sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱrós (“sharp”).
Alternative forms
Adjective
acre m, f (plural acres, comparable)
- sharp (having an intense, acrid flavour)
Etymology 2
Borrowing from English acre, from Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”).
Noun
acre m (plural acres)
- acre (unit of surface area)