Meaning & use
acre
A unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards, or about 4,047 square meters.
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The farm covered nearly two hundred acres of open farmland.
They bought a small house on a quarter-acre lot in the suburbs.
A note on using this word
An acre measures area, not shape, so a plot of any shape can be described as one acre if it covers that much ground.
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