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acre
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What does acre mean?
noun
- 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.
- Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
- (informal) A wide expanse.
More meanings (9)
noun
- (informal) A large quantity.
- (historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
- (obsolete) A field.
- (obsolete) 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).
- (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
proper noun
- A port city in northern Israel, holiest city in the Baháʼí Faith.
- A river in South America.
- A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Rio Branco.
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
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In ten years he began to sell lots from the Richmond Hill property at the rate of five thousand dollars an acre.
I pulled nearly a quarter of an acre of maize, but it was a scanty crop, and the husks were poorly filled.
More book examples (2)
At two points we notice reservoirs, each about an acre in size, and an average depth of not less than twenty feet.
After the taxes were paid, about thirty cents an acre remained for repairs on buildings and fences and interest on the investment.