| acre | |
| 1. n. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters. | |
| 2. n. Any of various similar units of area in other systems. | |
| 3. n. (informal, usually plural) A wide expanse. | |
| I like my new house - there’s acres of space! | |
| 4. n. (informal, usually plural) A large quantity. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) A field. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m). | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands. | |
