ACRE


Meaning of ACRE in English

ˈākə(r) noun

( -s )

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English æcer; akin to Old High German ackar field, Old Norse akr arable land, Gothic akrs field, Latin ager, Greek agros, Sanskrit ajra, Latin agere to drive — more at agent

1.

a. : a field especially of arable or pasture land — archaic except in proper names or in compounds or phrases

Long Acre

black acre

b. acres plural : lands , estate

he commuted between his country acres and his Madison Avenue office — Time

these skills, like fat flocks or ancestral acres, were passed from father to son — Harriot B. Barbour

2. : any of various units of area based on an old approximate unit equal to the amount of land plowed by a yoke of oxen in a day ; especially : a unit in the United States and England equal to 160 square rods

a field of six acres

a 10- acre field

— see measure table; compare arpent

3. : a broad expanse

smiling valleys were turned into acres of slums — Gilbert Highet

: a large quantity — usually used in plural

I have read acres of source material on European history — H.E.Barnes

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.