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n. A unit of area in the U.S. Customary System, used in land and sea floor measurement and equal to 160 square rods, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. See Table at measurement.

n. Property in the form of land; estate.

n. A wide expanse, as of land or other matter. Often used in the plural: "Everything was streaky pink marble and acres of textureless carpeting” ( Anne Tyler).

n. Archaic A field or plot of arable land.

n. A field.

n. A unit of surface area (symbol a. or ac.), originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day; later defined as an area 1 chain (22 yd) by 1 furlong (220 yd), or 4,840 square yards. Equivalent to about 4,046.86 square metres.

n. A large amount (of area).

n. Any field of arable or pasture land.

n. A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.

n. Originally

n. A superficial measure of land, usually stated to be 40 poles in length by 4 in breadth; but 160 perches (= 4840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet) make an acre, however shaped.

n. A lineal measure equal to a furrow's length, or 40 poles; more frequently, an acre's breadth, 4 poles, equal to 22 or 25 yards.

n. a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru

n. a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean

n. a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries

"Few people know that an acre is a chain times a furlong but in the US we like the term acre and we are used to it so take your French opinions and your metric system and . . . oops, sorry, got a little off track there."

territory    territorial dominion    district    dominion    port    town    area unit    square measure   

god's acre    burgh acres    Wikipedia article on the acre    US survey acre    international acre    Weights and measures   

acorn   

God's acre    acre foot   

Baker    Quaker    Shaker    achor    aker    baker    breaker    craker    faker    laker   

expanse    bushel    mile    patch    crop    pound    inch    farm    tract    ton