acre
382
1.3
- noun
- /ˈeɪ.kɚ/
:
acre
- And this is a place where people would generally buy lots that were about an acre in size and then build a house.
- acres of land
- one acre
- half an acre
Here's how many acres we will annex.
- Here's how many acres we will annex.
- It was just no Victorian on an acre of land near downtown Austin.
- And we grow more stuff than any other farm, you know, acre to acre comparison in terms of biomass.
- But man, they own acres of land and they own buildings and they own property.
- And to try to how are we going to, if you spray this on every acre of AG ground, you'd save.
- And this is a place where people would generally buy lots that were about an acre in size and then build a house.
- I mean that are are are useless having a half acre plot or an acre plot next to Lake Tahoe.
Examples
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The team is turning their 30-acre farm into a center for developing open-source machines.
Academic text (2011) -
The park has over fifty acres of open space for picnics and sports.
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It's on about half an acre maybe, maybe a little less.
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David, there are 26 acres in this garden.
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Because I have bought 600 acres of land there.
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By 1985, the church owned nine acres of land and had three thousand members.
Academic text (1990) -
They'll buy an acre of land in rural Italy.
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The ruins of the city cover roughly 30 acres around the ziggurat.
Academic text (2011) -
In 1847, his father bought him a 70-acre farm on the Connecticut coast.
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For example, California has 500,000 acres of prime agricultural land situated along the San Joaquin Delta.
Academic text (1999)
Idioms
- Informal
Everywhere in a hurried, messy way like people searching quickly
Compounds
- Archaic
A part of Manhattan once known for crime and very poor housing in the 1800s and early 1900s
How Big
- US
15
2.6
- Specialized
18
3.8
382
1.3
- US
10
1.0
- Specialized
1
2.2
- US
1
2.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Acre comes from an old English word æcer meaning 'field' or 'open land'. A helpful way to remember it is that an acre was once thought of as the amount of land a farmer could plough in a day, so today an acre still means a measure of land.