Comprehensive
Dictionary Suite
Help
Help
Help
 
     
Lookup History
acre

a·cre

acre

 
pronunciation:
eI kr
features:
Word History, Word Explorer
part of speech: noun
definition: a standard unit of area used to measure land.
Word History
The word acre comes from the early English word acer. This word simply meant "a ploughed field." When the word "acre" was first used for an amount of land, it meant the amount of land that a pair of oxen could plough in one day. A three-acre field might differ in size from region to region. Later a law was passed in England that made an acre a standard unit of area.
Word Explorer
See
  measurement