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–noun

1.	a common variable unit of land measure, now equal in the U.S. and Great Britain to 43,560 square feet or ¹/₆₄₀ square mile (4047 square meters).

acres,

a.	lands; land: wooded acres.

b.	Informal. large quantities: acres of Oriental rugs.

3.	Archaic. a plowed or sown field.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME aker, OE æcer; c. OFris ekker, OS akkar, OHG ackar (G Acker), ON akr, Goth akers, L ager, Gk agrós, Skt ájra-; see also acorn, agrarian, agrestic, agriculture, agro-

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1.	a state in W Brazil. 301,628; 58,900 sq. mi. (152,550 sq. km). Capital: Rio Branco.

2.	a seaport in NW Israel: besieged and captured by Crusaders 1191. 38,700.

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n.

Abbr. a. or ac. A unit of area in the U.S. Customary System, used in land and sea floor measurement and equal to 160 square rods, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. See Table at measurement.
acres Property in the form of land; estate.
A wide expanse, as of land or other matter. Often used in the plural: "Everything was streaky pink marble and acres of textureless carpeting" (Anne Tyler).
Archaic A field or plot of arable land.

[Middle English aker, field, acre, from Old English æcer; see agro- in Indo-European roots.]

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A port city of northern Israel on the Bay of Haifa. During the Crusades it changed hands many times between Christians and Muslims. Acre was ceded to the Arabs in the United Nations partition of Palestine in 1948 but was captured by Israel shortly thereafter. Population: 45,900.

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O.E. æcer "tilled field, open land," from P.Gmc. *akraz "field, pasture" (cf. O.N. akr, O.Fris. ekkr, O.H.G. achar), from PIE *agros "field" (cf. L. ager "field, land," Gk. agros, Skt. ajras "plain, open country"). Originally in Eng. without reference to dimension; in late O.E. the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plow in a day, afterward defined by statute to a piece 40 poles by 4, or an equivalent shape (5 Edw. I, 31 Edw. III, 24 Hen. VIII). Original sense retained in God's acre "churchyard."

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acre
noun
1.	a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries
2.	a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru
3.	a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean

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A unit of area in the US Customary System, used in land and sea floor measurement and equal to 43,560 square feet or 4,047 square meters.

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A"corn\, n. [AS. [ae]cern, fr. [ae]cer field, acre; akin to D. aker acorn, Ger. ecker, Icel. akarn, Dan. agern, Goth. akran fruit, akrs field; -- orig. fruit of the field. See Acre.]

1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

2. (Naut.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

3. (Zo["o]l.) See Acorn-shell.

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