acre

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈeɪ.kə/    美 /ˈeɪ.kɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
  2. 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.; An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters. historical
  3. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
  4. A wide expanse. informal,plural-normally
    — I like my new house—there’s acres of space!
  5. A large quantity. informal,plural-normally
  6. A field. obsolete
  7. The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m). obsolete
  8. A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands. obsolete

词形变化

acres plural acre UK,colloquial,plural acer alternative,obsolete aker alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
day's math demath feddan morgen arpent arpen pose cawney cawny bigha Irish acre collop plantation acre juger jugerum Scottish acre Scots acre Scotch acre acair Welsh acre cover cyfair erw stang
上位词
hundred carucate virgate oxgang nook fardel
下位词
rood lug perch fall
衍生词
acreable acreage acre breadth acre's breadth acre brede acred acre-dale acre foot acre-foot acreful acre-inch acre-land acre length acre's length acre lengh acreless acreman acreme acre money acreocracy acre shot acre-staff all over hell's half acre Blackacre black acre black-acre broadacre broad acres Castle Acre church acre Cornish acre Cunningham acre English acre Fool's acre foreacre Fouracre geld-acre God's acre hectacre Irish acre long-acre lug-acre multiacre nanoacre plantation acre Scots acre Scottish acre share acre South Acre starve-acre statute acre stave-acre tenantry acre Welsh acre West Acre Whiteacre white acre Woodacre
相关词
acorn Greenacre wiseacre international acre north forty US survey acre Weights and measures Hufe

词源

Etymology 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.
Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra, “field, plain”).
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