How to pronounce acre
American English pronunciation
AY-kur
- IPA
- /ˈeɪkɚ/
- Syllables
- AY · kur (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What acre means
A measure of land about the size of a football field
In a sentence: The farm had ten acres of corn and one small pond.
Where it comes from: From an Old English word for a field where crops grow. Long ago an acre was about the land a pair of oxen could plow in one day.
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