acre

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

acre [acre acres] BrE [ˈeɪkə(r)] NAmE [ˈeɪkər] noun
a unit for measuring an area of land; 4 840 square yards or about 4 050 square metres
•3 000 acres of parkland
•a three-acre wood
• (informal)Each house has acres of space around it (= a lot of space).

Word Origin:
Old English æcer (denoting the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plough in a day), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch akker and German Acker ‘field’, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit ajra ‘field’, Latin ager, and Greek agros.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  Acre, Akko, Akka, Accho