acre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: āʹkə
ipa: /ˈeɪ.kə/
enpr: āʹkər
ipa: /ˈeɪ.kɚ/
rhymes: -eɪkə(r)
homophone: acher
Forms: form: acres
form: acre
form: aker
form: acer
Etymology: From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”).
Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra, “field, plain”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: 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.
glosses: 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.
An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
qualifier: Chester
glosses: Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
examples: text: I like my new house—there’s acres of space!
glosses: A wide expanse.
glosses: A large quantity.
glosses: A field.
glosses: 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).
glosses: A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
Synonyms: sense: approximate
word: day's math
sense: approximate
word: demath
word: feddan
word: morgen
word: arpent
word: arpen
word: pose
word: Morgen
word: cawney
word: cawny
word: bigha
word: Irish acre
word: collop
word: plantation acre
word: juger
word: jugerum
word: Scottish acre
word: Scots acre
word: Scotch acre
word: acair
word: Welsh acre
word: cover
word: cyfair
word: erw
word: stang
Hypernyms: sense: 100 carucates, notionally
word: hundred
sense: the area able to be plowed by 8 oxen in a year
word: carucate
sense: the area able to be plowed by two oxen in a year
word: virgate
sense: the area able to be plowed by an ox in a year
word: oxgang
sense: the area able to be plowed by an ox in half a season
word: nook
alt: the area able to be plowed by an ox in 1⁄4 a season
word: fardel
sense: 10 acres, prob. spurious
word: acreme
Hyponyms: alt: 1⁄4 acre
word: rood
alt: 1⁄160 acre
word: lug
word: perch
word: fall
Derived terms: acreable
acreage
acre breadth
acre's breadth
acre brede
acred
acre-dale
acre foot
acre-foot
acreful
acre-inch
acre-land
acre length
acre's length
acre lengh
acreless
acreman
acreme
acre money
acreocracy
acre shot
acre-staff
all over hell's half acre
Blackacre
black acre
black-acre
broadacre
broad acres
Castle Acre
church acre
Cornish acre
Cunningham acre
English acre
Fool's acre
foreacre
Fouracre
geld-acre
God's acre
hectacre
Irish acre
long-acre
lug-acre
multiacre
nanoacre
plantation acre
Scots acre
Scottish acre
share acre
South Acre
starve-acre
statute acre
stave-acre
tenantry acre
Welsh acre
West Acre
Whiteacre
white acre
Woodacre
Related terms: acorn
Greenacre
wiseacre
international acre
north forty
US survey acre
Weights and measures
Hufe