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Dessiatine (Noun)

Meaning

A former Russian unit of area equal to 2.7 acres.

Classification

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.

Examples

  • The Russian aristocrat owned a large estate that spanned hundreds of dessiatines of fertile land.
  • In the 19th century, the typical peasant farm in rural Russia consisted of just a few dessiatines of arable land.
  • The surveyor carefully measured out the boundaries of the land, calculating its total area in dessiatines.
  • After the revolution, the Soviet government seized large tracts of land from the nobility, redistributing it in smaller parcels of one or two dessiatines to peasant families.
  • Historians estimate that the average noble estate in pre-revolutionary Russia comprised around 500-1000 dessiatines of land.

Hypernyms

  • Square Measure
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