acre

CEFRC1

/ˈeɪ.kə/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A unit for measuring land, equal to about 4,047 square meters.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any of various similar units of area in other systems.

Examples

  • Dan bought an acre of land in Nevada.

  • That farmer cultivated a 200 acre plantation.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. 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.

  2. An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.

  3. A wide expanse.

More examples

In context

  • They sell land by the acre.

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

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).