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   acre

   /ˈeɪkə/

   noun

   • 1. a unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards (0.405 hectare): "he farms 1,200 acres in East Yorkshire"
   • ▪ a large extent or amount of something: "acres of space"

   Word Origin Old Englishæcer (denoting the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plough in a day), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch akker and German Acker ‘field’, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit ajra ‘field’, Latin ager, and Greek agros.

   Derivatives

   • 1. acred adjective

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • A

     1

   • C

     3

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

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