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acre¹
- /ˈeɪ.kə/ UK
- /ˈeɪ.kɚ/ US
Sounds like acher · Rhymes with -eɪkə(r)
Where it comes from
From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Doublet of agriculture.
Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra, “field, plain”).
noun acres · acre · acer · aker
- An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres. Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
- An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
- Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
- A wide expanse. I like my new house—there’s acres of space!
- A large quantity.
- A field.
- The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m).
- A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
Similar: day's math, demath, feddan, morgen, arpent, arpen, pose, Morgen, cawney, cawny, bigha, Irish acre, collop, plantation acre, juger, jugerum, Scottish acre, Scots acre, Scotch acre, acair, Welsh acre, cover, cyfair, erw, stang
Acre²
- /ˈeɪ.kɚ/
- /ˈɑː.kɚ/
Rhymes with -eɪkɚ
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French and Latin Acre, from Ancient Greek Ἄκο (Áko) or Ἄκη (Ákē), from Hebrew עכו (ʿAkko), of unknown origin.
proper noun
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A port city in northern Israel, holiest city in the Baháʼí Faith.
Similar: Antioch
Acre³
- /ˈɑːkɹi/
- /ˈɑːkɹeɪ/
Rhymes with -ɑːkɹɚ
Where it comes from
From Portuguese Acre, of uncertain origin.
proper noun
- A river in South America.
- A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Rio Branco.
Acre⁴
- /ˈeɪkɚ/
Rhymes with -eɪkɚ
Where it comes from
Probably a variant of Acker or Acree/Ackary, though also possibly Americanization of Norwegian Aakre or Low German Egger.
proper noun
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: demesne, estate, land, landed estate, hectare, acreage, plot, acer, walker, accra, agra, sorrow, akka, caer, tract, lot
noun
Similar: day's math, demath, feddan, morgen, arpent, arpen, pose, Morgen, cawney, cawny, bigha, Irish acre, collop, plantation acre, juger, jugerum, Scottish acre, Scots acre, Scotch acre, acair, Welsh acre, cover, cyfair, erw, stang
Translations
Every language
noun unit of surface area
| Español | acre |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 에이커 eikeo |
| 日本語 | エーカー ēkā |
| 中文 | 英畝 /英亩 yīngmǔ |
| Kiswahili | ekari |
| Português | acre, jeira |
| Français | acre |
| Deutsch | Morgen, Acker, Joch, Joch Landes |
| Italiano | acro |
| Ελληνικά | έικρ éikr |
| Русский | акр akr |
| Tiếng Việt | mẫu Anh, mẫu tây |
| العربية | آكِر ʔākir |
Talk about this word "acre." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/acre. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. acre. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/acre "acre." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/acre.Cite this
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title = {acre},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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