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acre

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"Farm area measure"

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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

01“Farm area measure”4 letters
02“Farm-size land unit”4 letters
03“Land measure”4 letters
04“Measure of land”4 letters
05“Plot-size measure”4 letters
06“Plot-size unit”4 letters
07“Unit for measuring land”4 letters
08“Land area unit”4 letters

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