| n. | 1. | Any field of arable or pasture land. | ||||||
| 2. | A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.
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| Noun | 1. | acre - a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries |
| 2. | Acre - a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru | |
| 3. | Acre - a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean |
ACRE, measures. A quantity of land containing in length forty perches, and four in breadth, or one hundred and sixty square perches, of whatever shape may be the land. Serg. Land Laws of Penn., 185. See Cro. Eliz. 476, 665; 6 Co. 67; Poph. 55; Co. Litt. 5, b, and note 22.
area unit, square measure