acre

See also Acre

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• aker (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“a field, land, that which is sown, sown land, cultivated land; a definite quantitiy of land, land which a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, an acre, a certain quantity of land, strip of plough-land; crop”), 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”), Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agros, “field”). Related also to acorn.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: āʹkə, IPA: /ˈeɪ.kə/, X-SAMPA: /"eI.k@/
• (US) enPR: āʹkər, IPA: /ˈeɪ.kɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"eI.k@`/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪkə(r)

Noun

acre (plural acres)

1. (obsolete) A field.
2. A unit of surface area (symbol a. or ac.), originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day; later defined as an area 1 chain (22 yd) by 1 furlong (220 yd), or 4,840 square yards. Equivalent to about 4,046.86 square metres.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion^[1]:

     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.

3. (in the plural, informal) A large amount (of area).

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

Derived terms

• acre foot
• God's acre

Related terms

• acorn

Translations

unit of surface area

• Arabic: آكر (ar) (ākir) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英畝 (cmn) (yīngmǔ)

• Esperanto: akreo (eo)
• Estonian: aaker (et)
• Faroese: ekra (fo) f
• Finnish: eekkeri (fi)
• French: acre (fr) f
• German: Morgen (de) m, Acker (de) m, Joch (de) n, Joch Landes (de) n, (Swiss German) Juchart (de) m and f
• Japanese: エーカー (ja) (ēkā)

• Jèrriais: acre f
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: به‌رجووت

• Navajo: náhásdzo hayázhí dikʼą́
• Persian: جریب (fa) (jarib)
• Russian: акр (ru) (akr) m
• Scottish Gaelic: acaire (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: акер (sh) m, aker (sh) m
• Spanish: acre (es) m
• Volapük: göded (vo)

See also

• international acre
• US survey acre
• Weights and measures
• Wikipedia article on the acre

Anagrams

• care
• race

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French

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse akr.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /akʁ/, X-SAMPA: /akR/

• audio

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• Audio (US)

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Noun

acre f (plural acres)

1. (historical) acre

Anagrams

• care
• créa
• race

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin ācre, neuter nominative singular of ācer (“sharp”).

Adjective

acre m and f (m and f plural acri)

1. sharp, sour
2. harsh

Related terms

• acredine
• acremente

Anagrams

• care, cera, c'era, crea, reca

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Jèrriais

Noun

acre f (plural acres)

1. acre

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Latin

Adjective

ācre

1. neuter nominative singular of ācer
2. neuter accusative singular of ācer
3. neuter vocative singular of ācer

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Romanian

Adjective

acre

1. feminine pluralnominative form of acru
2. feminine pluralaccusative form of acru
3. neuter pluralnominative form of acru
4. neuter pluralaccusative form of acru

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Spanish

Adjective

acre m and f (plural acres)

1. bitter; acrid
2. caustic

Noun

acre m (plural acres)

1. acre

Anagrams

• arce, crea