Meaning & use
one hectare
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Meaning
nouncountable
A unit of land area equal to 10,000 square meters, used especially for measuring fields and forests.
Grammar: Countable; the plural is 'hectares.' Use 'a' or 'one' before the singular.
Patterns
- one hectare of land
- an area of one hectare
- cover one hectare
The farmer planted wheat on one hectare of land.
A football field is roughly one hectare in size.
They bought one hectare near the river to build a house.
Word forms
| plural | hectares |
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Common combinations
- one hectare of land
- She owns one hectare of land outside the village.
- per hectare
- The yield was five tons per hectare.
- a hectare of forest
- The fire destroyed a hectare of forest.
- half a hectare
- They cultivate half a hectare of vegetables.
Synonyms and how they differ
- acre
- An acre is about 0.4 hectares, so it is smaller; use 'acre' mainly in the US and UK for land measurement.
Word family
- hectare noun
- The base unit; 'one hectare' specifies a single unit.
Commonly confused: one hectare or hector?
one hectare vs hector
Hector is a verb meaning to bully or a male name; hectare is only a unit of area.
Practice
The farm covers an area of ______, which is about the size of two football fields.
Choose one answer.
'One hectare' is the correct singular form; 'hectar' and 'hector' are misspellings, and 'one hectares' is grammatically wrong because 'one' takes a singular noun.
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