acre
Noun
- A unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards.
- a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries
- a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru
- a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean
- 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 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.
- Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
- A wide expanse.
- A large quantity.
- A field.
- 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).
- A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
Examples
- He created an acre of opportunity by opening up the board with a long word.
- I like my new house—there’s acres of space!
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
Accho, Akka, Akko, Irish acre, Morgen, Scotch acre, Scots acre, Scottish acre, Welsh acre, acair, arpen, arpent, bigha, cawney, cawny, collop, cover, cyfair, day's math, demath, erw, feddan, juger, jugerum, morgen, plantation acre, pose, stang
Scrabble Score: 6
acre: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordacre: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
acre: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary