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Definition of acre noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

acre

noun
 
 
/ˈeɪkə(r)/
 
/ˈeɪkər/
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  1. (in Britain and North America) a unit for measuring an area of land; 4 840 square yards or about 4 050 square metres
    • 3 000 acres of parkland
    • a three-acre wood
    • (informal) Each house has acres of space around it (= a lot of space).
    Topics Farmingc1, Maths and measurementc1
    Word OriginOld English æcer (denoting the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plough in a day), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch akker and German Acker ‘field’, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit ajra ‘field’, Latin ager, and Greek agros.
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