Word: Acre
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Old 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
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈeɪkə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards (0.405 hectare)
Short Definition:unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards
Examples:- he farms 1,200 acres in East Yorkshire
- a 15-acre estate
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