Acre > define
noun
- A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
- A territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru.
- A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) Any field of arable or pasture land.
- (n.) 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.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
acre is a tract of land containing 43, 560 square feet, or 0. 0016 square miles of land. An acre measures 208. 71 feet on each side. In the metric system, one acre equals 0. 4047 hectare or 40. 47 ares.