Definitionen
1.NounAn 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.
An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
2.NounAn area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
3.NounAny of various similar units of area in other systems.
4.NounA wide expanse."I like my new house—there’s acres of space!"
5.NounA large quantity.
6.NounA field.
7.NounThe acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m).
8.NounA duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.