acres

Meaning of acres

plural noun
  1. a unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards (0.405 hectare).
    he farms 1,200 acres in East Yorkshire
    a 15-acre estate

Old English æcer (denoting the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plough in a day), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch akker and German Acker ‘field’, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit ajra ‘field’, Latin ager, and Greek agros .

Information about acres

Hyphenation of acres

acres

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • acres is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

acres synonyms

Meaning estate:

estate, land, demesne

Anagrams of acres

acers, arces, cares, carse, caser, ceras, Cesar, cesar, Cresa, escar, races, sacre, scare, scrae, serac

Words that rhyme with acres

Cres, cres, Acres, conacres, cornacres, fiacres, massacres, nacres, polacres, simulacres, stavesacres, wiseacres, chancres, involucres, lucres, sucres

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