Definitions for Acre

Acre a·cre

Spelling: [ey-ker]
IPA: /ˈeɪ kər/

Acre is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in Acre (acer).

Definitions for Acre

noun

  1. a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
  2. acres. lands; land: Informal. large quantities:
  3. Archaic. a plowed or sown field.
  4. a state in W Brazil. 58,900 sq. mi. (152,550 sq. km). Capital: Rio Branco.
  5. a seaport in NW Israel: besieged and captured by Crusaders 1191.

Origin of Acre

before 1000; Middle English aker, Old English æcer; cognate with Old Frisian ekker, Old Saxon akkar, Old High German ackar (German Acker), Old Norse akr, Gothic akers, Latin ager, Greek agrós

Examples for Acre

It is a quiet spot, but without gloom, as befits "God's acre."

This was forty rods, or poles, and four of these furrows made up the acre.

In 1981, the average price of farmland in Iowa was $2,147 per acre; by 1986, the average farm brought $787 an acre.

A video shows counselors calling for violent conquering of Jaffa and acre (Akko).

His attempt to boost farm wages, called the Agricultural Adjustment Act, supposedly "plowed under" every fourth acre.

I think every acre of land suitable for garden or field cultivation is taken.

Looking for a rec center with an acre of cardio and weight machines like the ones used at the Beijing Olympics?

Tableland there is none except little patches of less than an acre.

"I wish I had an acre for every good thrashing I got when I was a boy," he commented drily.

Sometimes the great powers applauded; sometimes they condemned, but acre by acre, Jews seized control of their fate.

Word Value for Acre
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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