How do you use the word "acre" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "acre": That farmer cultivated a 200 acre plantation. They sell land by the acre.

Acre Meaning

/ˈeɪ.kə/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn 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.

nounAn 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.

Sentence Examples

That farmer cultivated a 200 acre plantation.

They sell land by the acre.

Dan bought an acre of land in Nevada.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The farmer owns a hundred acres of land, but each ____ must be tended carefully.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

They bought an ____ of land to build their dream house.

Word Origin & History

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”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:

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