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acre

noun

ˈā-kər How to pronounce acre (audio)
1
a
archaic : a field especially of arable land or pastureland
b
acres plural : lands, estate
2
: any of various units of area
specifically : a unit in the U.S. and England equal to 43,560 square feet (4047 square meters) see Weights and Measures Table
3
: a broad expanse or great quantity
acres of free publicity

Example Sentences

The house sits on two acres of land. They own hundreds of acres of farmland.
Recent Examples on the Web There’s also a large casita on the almost quarter-of-an-acre property that needs plumbing. Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Aug. 2022 Set a maximum by-right building footprint. Require a special permit for new development on properties greater than three-quarters of an acre. John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022 Today, Watlington, who used to own The Red Door restaurant in Mission Hills, operates Two Forks Farm on a third of an acre in Mount Helix and works with area restaurants and independent chefs. Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022 At least a dozen holdover fires were detected in the Klamath National Forest, ranging in size from less than one-tenth of an acre to several acres, the U.S. Forest Service said Monday. Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2022 At least a dozen holdover fires were detected in the Klamath National Forest, ranging in size from less than one-tenth of an acre to several acres, the U.S. Forest Service said Monday. Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022 The third, on what is now Barack Obama Boulevard, is a tenth of an acre. Wired, 29 July 2022 The villa spans three stories on a third of an acre, scattering three bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms across 7,340 square feet. al, 28 July 2022 Completed just before the pandemic, the property sits on three-fourths of an acre and offers ocean views from nearly every corner. David Kaufman, Robb Report, 14 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English aker, acre, going back to Old English æcer, going back to Germanic *akraz (whence also, with k geminate in West Germanic, Old Saxon akkar "field," Old High German ackar, Old Norse akr "arable land," Gothic akrs "field"), going back to Indo-European *h2eǵros, whence also Latin ager, "piece of land, field," Greek agrós, Sanskrit ájrah

Note: This Indo-European noun is traditionally linked to the verbal base *h2eǵ- "drive (cattle, etc.)" (see agent), on the assumption that *h2eǵ-ros originally meant "pasture," "fallow land," onto which the cattle were driven, and later developed other senses, as "cultivated field." The semantic plausibility of such a derivation has recently been questioned, however.

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of acre was before the 12th century

Phrases Containing acre

See also: Acer

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