Acre

Definitions

1. A port city in northern Israel, holiest city in the Baháʼí Faith.
2. A river in South America.
3. A surname.
4. 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.
5. A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Rio Branco.
6. An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
   historical
7. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
8. A wide expanse.
   informal, plural-normally
9. A large quantity.
   informal, plural-normally
10. A field.
    obsolete
11. 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).
    obsolete
12. A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“I like⟳ my new house—there’s acres of space!”

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