acre
acre Lexical Profile
acre Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A unit of land area in the imperial and US customary systems equal to 4,840 square yards (43,560 square feet) or aproximadamente 0.405 hectares.
"The family purchased a historic farmhouse situated on twenty acres of wooded land."
A large expanse, tract, or quantity of land or space (usually used in the plural).
"The newly opened museum features acres of exhibition space dedicated to modern sculpture."
A historic port city in northern Israel on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, located at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay and renowned for its Crusader-era fortifications.
Word Nuance & Usage
Do not confuse 'acre' (a unit of land area) with its homophone 'acher' (one who aches) or the capitalized proper noun 'Acre' (a historic port city in northern Israel).
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'æcer', meaning a field or cultivated piece of land, originally defined in the Middle Ages as the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plow in one day. It is cognate with Latin 'ager' (field), from which 'agriculture' is derived.