1. acre - Noun
2. Acre - Proper noun
Any field of arable or pasture land.
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAn acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present? Chuck Palahniuk
The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain. Rashi
Reputation is commonly measured by the acre. English Proverb
One acre of performance, is worth twenty of the land of promise. English Proverb
The acre of laziness is full of thistles. German Proverb