Acre (Noun)
Meaning 1
A territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Meaning 2
A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The large farmhouse sat on a 200-acre property surrounded by woods and fields.
- The new residential development covers an area of over 50 acres and features hiking trails and a community center.
- The family's backyard was only a quarter acre, but they managed to fit in a garden, a patio, and a swing set.
- The local park spans 30 acres and contains several playgrounds, sports fields, and a picturesque pond.
- The agricultural land was sold off in 100-acre parcels to individual farmers and ranchers.
Hypernyms
Meaning 3
A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- Acre is a historic city situated on a low promontory on the northern part of the Bay of Acre, 39 kilometers north of Haifa, spanning over 24 square kilometers or about 9,300 acres.
- The first to appear on this soil were the various tribes that inhabited the fertile crescent, encompassing almost 300,000 acres of land along the eastern Mediterranean coastline.
- The total area of Acre is roughly estimated at approximately 150 hectares of dense metropolitan spaces accounting to be exactly half a thousand of about thousand total that existed through local farming land that comprised acres.
- The city itself on coastal point just accounts with seven smaller populated kilometric outer-laws though that was 30 or so acres of major localities in most relevant history yet Acre thrives this day.
- Though lacking in natural resource fields relative to immediate surface measurements (roughly one-twentieth the modest scale is estimated to hit plus beyond seven-eighth acres), has been to the wondrous metropolis.