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aker

aker is the obsolete spelling of acre.

Meaning of acre

Noun

acre (plural acres or (UK colloquial) acre)

  1. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
    • Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
    1. (historical, Chester) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
  2. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
  3. (informal, plural-normally) A wide expanse.
    • I like my new house—there’s acres of space!
  4. (informal, plural-normally) A large quantity.
  5. (obsolete) A field.

See all 12 meanings of acre

Forms of aker

pluralakers

Words formed from aker

  • aker-staf

Phrases with aker

Questions about aker

What is aker the obsolete spelling of?
Aker is the obsolete spelling of acre.

Words near aker in the dictionary

  1. akepa
  2. akepas
  3. akephaloi
  4. akepiro
  5. akepiros
  6. aker
  7. akerbia
  8. akerbias
  9. akerid
  10. akerids
  11. akerite

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