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Word entry · 4 letters

acre

Best crossword clue

"Farm area measure"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈeɪ.kə/Part of speech nounSorted acerStarts with AEnds with E8 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • I like my new house—there’s acres of space!

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Used as a crossword answer8 curated clues

01Farm area measure4 letters
02Farm-size land unit4 letters
03Land measure4 letters
04Measure of land4 letters
05Plot-size measure4 letters
06Plot-size unit4 letters
07Unit for measuring land4 letters
08Land area unit4 letters

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