Meaning

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

noun a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru

noun a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros Proto-Germanic *akraz Proto-West Germanic *akr Old English æcer Middle English aker English acre 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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