Acre

Quick meaning: Acre is a noun meaning Any of various similar units of area in other systems.

Meaning

Any of various similar units of area in other systems.

More Meanings

1. (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
2. (informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
3. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
4. (obsolete) A field.
5. (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
6. (obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m).

Example Sentences

I like my new house—there’s acres of space!

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.

Word Forms

• acres

Synonyms for acre

Depending on context, synonyms include feddan, morgen, arpent, arpen, pose, cawney.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include demesne, estate, land, hectare, acreage, plot.

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