acre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros
Proto-Germanic *akraz
Proto-West Germanic *akr
Old English æcer
Middle English aker
English acre
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”). Doublet of agriculture.
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: acres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acre
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
plural
form: acer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: aker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
pos: noun
gloss: A wide expanse.
pos: noun
tags: informal
plural-normally
examples: I like my new house—there’s acres of space!
gloss: A large quantity.
pos: noun
tags: informal
plural-normally
gloss: A field.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: day's math
demath
feddan
morgen
arpent
arpen
pose
Morgen
cawney
cawny
bigha
Irish acre
collop
plantation acre
juger
jugerum
Scottish acre
Scots acre
Scotch acre
acair
Welsh acre
cover
cyfair
erw
stang
Related words: acorn
Greenacre
wiseacre
international acre
north forty
US survey acre
Weights and measures
Hufe
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: آكِر
roman: ʔākir
lang: Bulgarian
word: а́кър
roman: ákǎr
lang: Burmese
word: ဧက
roman: eka.
lang: Catalan
word: acre
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 英畝 /英亩
roman: yīngmǔ
lang: Czech
word: akr
lang: Esperanto
word: akreo
lang: Estonian
word: aaker
lang: Faroese
word: ekra
lang: Finnish
word: eekkeri
lang: French
word: acre
lang: Galician
word: acre
lang: Georgian
word: აკრი
roman: aḳri
lang: German
word: Morgen
lang: German
word: Acker
lang: German
word: Joch
lang: German
word: Joch Landes
lang: German
word: Juchart
lang: Greek
word: έικρ
roman: éikr
lang: Hausa
word: ēkā̀
lang: Hungarian
word: angol hold
lang: Indonesian
word: ekar
lang: Irish
word: acra
lang: Italian
word: acro
lang: Japanese
word: エーカー
roman: ēkā
lang: Korean
word: 에이커
roman: eikeo
lang: Central Kurdish
word: بەرجووت
roman: bercût
lang: Malay
word: ekar
lang: Māori
word: eka
lang: Navajo
word: náhásdzo hayázhí dikʼą́
lang: Niuean
word: eka
lang: Norman
word: acre
lang: Old English
word: æcer
lang: Persian
word: جریب
roman: jerib
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Aka
lang: Polish
word: akr
lang: Portuguese
word: acre
lang: Portuguese
word: jeira
lang: Russian
word: акр
roman: akr
lang: Samoan
word: 'eka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: acaire
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: акер
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: aker
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jutro
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ral
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: morgen
lang: Spanish
word: acre
lang: Swahili
word: ekari
lang: Telugu
word: ఎకరా
roman: ekarā
lang: Telugu
word: ఎకరము
roman: ekaramu
lang: Thai
word: เอเคอร์
roman: ee-kə̂ə
lang: Ukrainian
word: акр
roman: akr
lang: Vietnamese
word: mẫu Anh
lang: Vietnamese
word: mẫu tây
lang: Volapük
word: göded
lang: Welsh
word: erw
lang: Yiddish
word: אַקער
roman: aker
lang: Yoruba
word: eékà
lang: Yoruba
word: sarè