acre
noun /ˈeɪkə(r)/
/ˈeɪkər/
- (in Britain and North America) a unit for measuring an area of land; 4 840 square yards or about 4 050 square metres
- 3 000 acres of parkland
- a three-acre wood
- (informal) Each house has acres of space around it (= a lot of space).
Word OriginOld 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.