acre

Definisjoner

an acre (an English unit of land area (symbol: ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters)

masculine

Eksempler

“han havde kjøbt de 125,000 acres land af et kompani eller rettere en bande af svindlere”

he had bought the 125,000 acres of land from a company or rather a gang of scammers

“liten elendig farm, firti acres”

small miserable farm, forty acres

“[glasshuset] dekket et område på 26 acres, som skulle bli over hundre norske mål”

[the glass house] covered an area of 26 acres, which was to be over a hundred Norwegian acres