a⋅cre
[ey-ker] 
| 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). |
| 2. | acres,
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| 3. | Archaic. a plowed or sown field. |
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-
A⋅cre
[ah-kruh for 1; ah-ker, ey-ker for 2] | 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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| a·cre (ā'kər) n.
[Middle English aker, field, acre, from Old English æcer; see agro- in Indo-European roots.] |
| A·cre (ä'krə, ä'kər) 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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Acre
A"cre\, n. [OE. aker, AS. [ae]cer; akin to OS. accar, OHG. achar, Ger. acker, Icel. akr, Sw. [*a]ker, Dan. ager, Goth. akrs, L. ager, Gr. ?, Skr. ajra. [root]2, 206.]1. Any field of arable or pasture land. [Obs.] 2. A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English. Note: The acre was limited to its present definite quantity by statutes of Edward I., Edward III., and Henry VIII. Broad acres, many acres, much landed estate. [Rhetorical] God's acre, God's field; the churchyard. I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial ground, God's acre. --Longfellow.Cite This Source
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| acre (ā'kər) Pronunciation Key
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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Acre
is the translation of a word (tse'med), which properly means a yoke, and denotes a space of ground that may be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in a day. It is about an acre of our measure (Isa. 5:10; 1 Sam. 14:14).
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acre
unit of land measurement in the British Imperial and United States Customary systems, equal to 43,560 square feet, or 160 square rods. One acre is equivalent to 0.4047 hectares (4,047 square metres). Derived from Middle English aker (from Old English aecer) and akin to Latin ager ("field"), the acre had one origin in the typical area that could be plowed in one day with a yoke of oxen pulling a wooden plow. The Anglo-Saxon acre was defined as a strip of land 1 110 furlong, or 40 4 rods (660 66 feet). One acre gradually came to denote a piece of land of any shape measuring the present 4,840 square yards. Larger and smaller variant acres, ranging from 0.19 to 0.911 hectares, were once employed throughout the British Isles
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