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# acre

noun (acre, acres)

«acre» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#m1)
2. Acres can mean a lot of land: «acres of forest». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x1)
- Each acre gives 30 bushels of wheat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x2)
- Tom plows 4 acres a day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x3)
- The park covers 25 acres. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x4)
- A football field is a bit more than one acre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x5)
- The ranch has hundreds of acres of grass. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x6)
- The fire burned 50 acres of forest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/#x7)
- How many acres can he plow in 5 days? [tree →](https://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://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 Jewish tradition

An old measure of land; the Hebrew word is a "yoke," meaning the land a pair of oxen could plough in a day. In the primary 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

- For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. (Prophets ISA.5.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/acre/#x1)
- And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armour-bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land. (Prophets 1SA.14.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/acre/#x2)

### 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).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «acre» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acre/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«acre» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/acre.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «acre» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/acre/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«acre» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/acre.html) on Mova free.