[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/acre.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / acre

[← A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/A/)

# acre

«acre» in Mova's school dictionary: **a unit for measuring the size of a piece of land** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (acre, acres)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An acre is a unit for measuring the size of a piece of land. A big farm field can be many acres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#m1)

2) Acres can mean a lot of land: «acres of forest». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a unit of area for fields, farms and gardens; problems give acres planted, acres per day or crops per acre; used mostly in the USA, the UK and Canada, while other places use hectares; phrases: «N acres of», «per acre», «each acre»

### examples

- A farmer plants corn on 12 acres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x1)
- Each acre gives 30 bushels of wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x2)
- Tom plows 4 acres a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x3)
- The park covers 25 acres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x4)
- A football field is a bit more than one acre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x5)
- The ranch has hundreds of acres of grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x6)
- The fire burned 50 acres of forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x7)
- How many acres can he plow in 5 days? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x8)
- The rich man's broad acres and the cottager's small garden patch were equally blighted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x9)

### note

A unit, not a thing counted; with «per acre» or «each acre» it marks a rate, so the total is often rate × acres. Trap: do not add acres to bushels or trees. «an acre» (vowel sound first).

### In the corpora

- [The air so clammy and chill, and not an insect in an acre of it!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/15/)
- [For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.100/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «acre» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.