acre

Meaning of acre

noun

a unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards (0.405 hectare).
he farms 1,200 acres in East Yorkshire
a 15-acre estate

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 .

Information about acre

It is a name.
The plural form of acre is: acres.
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Hyphenation of acre

acre

It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
acre is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

acre synonyms

Meaning Acre:

Akka

Translation of acre

Spanish: campo, acre
French: champ, acre
Italian: campo, acro
German: Acker, Feld
Portuguese: campo

Anagrams of acre

Acer, acer, Arce, Care, care, Cear, cera, Race, race, RecA

Words that rhyme with acre

Goodacre, Woodacre, broadacre, starveacre, whiteacre, wiseacre, longacre, fiacre, blackacre, milacre, polacre, simulacre, Linacre, conacre, cornacre, nacre, consacre, massacre, sacre, stavesacre, lavacre

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