What does ACRE mean?

Definitions for ACRE
ˈɑ krə for 1 ; ˈɑ kər, ˈeɪ kər for 2acre

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. acrenoun

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

  2. Acrenoun

    a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru

  3. Acre, Akko, Akka, Acchonoun

    a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean

Wiktionary

  1. acrenoun

    A field.

  2. acrenoun

    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.

  3. acrenoun

    A large amount (of area).

    I like my new house - there's acres of space!

  4. Acrenoun

    A state in north-western Brazil, bordering Peru and Bolivia.

  5. Etymology: aker, from æcer, from akraz, from h₂éǵros. Compare German Acker, Dutch akker, Latin ager (English agri-), Ancient Greek ἀγρός, and English acorn.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Acrenoun

    A quantity of land containing in length forty perches, and four in breadth, or four thousand eight hundred and forty square yards. Dict.

    Etymology: Æcre, Sax.

    Search ev’ry acre in the high-grown field,
    And bring him to our eye. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

Wikipedia

  1. Acre

    The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, 1⁄640 of a square mile, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare. Based upon the international yard and pound agreement of 1959, an acre may be declared as exactly 4,046.8564224 square metres. The acre is sometimes abbreviated ac but is usually spelled out as the word "acre".Traditionally, in the Middle Ages, an acre was conceived of as the area of land that could be ploughed by one man using a team of 8 oxen in one day.The acre is still a statutory measure in the United States. Both the international acre and the US survey acre are in use, but they differ by only four parts per million (see below). The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land. The acre is commonly used in a number of current and former British Commonwealth countries by custom only. In a few, it continues as a statute measure, although since 2010 not in the UK itself, and not since decades ago in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In many of those where it is not a statute measure, it is still lawful to "use for trade" if given as supplementary information and is not used for land registration.

ChatGPT

  1. acre

    An acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 1/640 of a square mile, 43,560 square feet, approximately 4,047 square meters, or about 40% of a hectare.

  2. acre

    An acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and U.S. customary systems, primarily used in the United States and other countries that do not use the metric system. It is traditionally understood to be about the same size as a football field. One acre is approximately 4,047 square meters, or 0.004047 square kilometers. It is also equivalent to 43,560 square feet.

  3. acre

    An acre is a unit of land measurement commonly used in the U.S and other countries that do not use the metric system. It is equal to 4,840 square yards or 43,560 square feet. It is roughly equivalent to 40% of a hectare or about the size of an American football field without the end zones. An acre is traditionally defined as the amount of land a pair of oxen could plow in one day.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Acrenoun

    any field of arable or pasture land

  2. Acrenoun

    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

  3. Etymology: [OE. aker, AS. cer; akin to OS. accar, OHG. achar, Ger. acker, Icel. akr, Sw. ker, Dan. ager, Goth. akrs, L. ager, Gr. , Skr. ajra. 2, 206.]

Wikidata

  1. Acre

    The acre is a unit of area used in the imperial and U.S. customary systems. An acre is about 40% of a hectare – slightly smaller than an American football field. The acre is no longer commonly used in most countries, although a few notable exceptions include the United States, Australia, India, Burma and the United Kingdom. It is still used, to some extent, in Canada. The international symbol of the acre is ac, and is defined as 1/640 of a square mile. The most commonly used acre today is the international acre. In the United States both the international acre and the slightly different US survey acre are in use. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land. One international acre is defined as 4046.8564224 square metres. During the Middle Ages, an acre was the amount of land that could be plowed in one day with a yoke of oxen.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Acre

    ā′kėr, n. a measure of land containing 4840 sq. yards. The Scotch acre contains 6150.4 sq. yards (48 Scotch—61 imperial acres): the Irish, 7840 sq. yards (50 Irish—81 imperial acres): (pl.) for lands, estates generally: (fig.) large quantities of anything.—n. A′creage, the number of acres in a piece of land.—adj. A′cred, possessing acres or land. [A.S. æcer; Ger. acker, L. ager, Gr. agros, Sans. ajras, a plain.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. acre

    An old duel fought by warriors between the frontiers of England and Scotland, with sword and lance. This duelling was also called camp-fight.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. acre

    A seaport town of Palestine (in ancient times the celebrated city of Ptolemais), which was the scene of many sieges. It was last stormed and taken by the British in 1840. Acre was gallantly defended by Djezzar Pacha against Bonaparte in July, 1798, till relieved by Sir Smith, who resisted twelve attempts by the French, between March 16 and May 20, 1799.

  2. acre

    An old duel fought by warriors between the frontiers of England and Scotland, with sword and lance. This dueling was also called camp-fight.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ACRE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Acre is ranked #31754 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Acre surname appeared 727 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Acre.

    89.1% or 648 total occurrences were White.
    5% or 37 total occurrences were Black.
    3.9% or 29 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.8% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ACRE' in Nouns Frequency: #1733

Anagrams for ACRE »

  1. care

  2. race

  3. crea

  4. acer

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ACRE in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ACRE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of ACRE in a Sentence

  1. Bretlyn Schmidtmann:

    Initially, it looked like a half-acre fire, it did n’t look very big at first and we kind of kept walking until we tried to get to the edge of the fire and we never got there.

  2. Sonny Perdue:

    We're anticipating right now three tranches; probably 50 percent ... or minimum there of $15 an acre initially.

  3. Evan Fraser:

    The vertical farming industry have done a remarkable job of reducing labor, water, and costs such as land costs. They are achieving a huge amount of productivity per square acre, per hour of worker and per liter of water use.

  4. Chief Executive Alain Bellemare:

    Today, we only use about 10 percent of a 370-acre site at Downsview and bear the entire cost of operating a 7,000-foot runway.

  5. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1:

    Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

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