acre
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
Noun 4 meanings
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
A wide expanse.
“I like my new house—there’s acres of space!”
A large quantity.
Etymology
From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Doublet of agriculture.
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ACRE at a glance
ACRE has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (A 1 + C 3 + R 1 + E 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,756 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with acre
All rhymes- MASSACRE12
- MEDIOCRE13
- SUCRE7
- LUCRE7
- NACRE7
- FIACRE11
- INVOLUCRE14
- WISEACRE13
- CHANCRE14
- CONACRE11
- CORNACRE12
- POLACRE11
One letter away
- ACNE6
- ACHE9
- ACME8
- AYRE7
- ACRO6
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