Usually means: Unit of land measurement area.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word acre:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Acre, acre: Merriam-Webster
  2. Acre, acre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Acre, acre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acre: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Acre, acre: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acre, acre: Wordnik
  7. acre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Acre, acre: Wiktionary
  9. acre: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acre: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acre: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. acre: Dictionary.com
  13. acre: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. acre: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Acre (Brazil), Acre (Cheshire), Acre (Irish), Acre (Israel), Acre (Scots), Acre (city), Acre (disambiguation), Acre (state), Acre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Acre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. acre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Acre: Rhymezone
  19. Acre (= 4047m2) (m), acre, acre, acre (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. acre: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ACRE, acre: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Acre: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. acre: FreeDictionary.org
  24. acre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Acre: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. acre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. acre: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Acre: Legal dictionary
  4. acre: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  6. Acre: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acre: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ACRE: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. ACRE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Acre: Easton Bible

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. acre: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Acre: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Acre: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. acre: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Acre: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  2. ACRE, ACRE: French-English Wine Glossary
  3. ACRE: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  4. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See acres as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
noun:  (Chester, historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
noun:  Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
noun:  (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
noun:  (informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
noun:  (obsolete) A field.
noun:  (obsolete) The 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).
noun:  (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
noun:  A port city in northern Israel, holiest city in the Baháʼí Faith.
noun:  A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Rio Branco
noun:  A surname.

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