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How to pronounce “acre

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Pronunciation guide for acre

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of acre with real speech in context.
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Real speech example
A Scientific Breakthrough That Could Transform How We Produce Foodthe Amazon take away acres and try to
Definition summary
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.

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How to pronounce acre

A Scientific Breakthrough That Could Transform How We Produce Food

the Amazon take away acres and try to

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A Deep Dive Into “acre

Meaning

  • [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.
  • Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
  • (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
  • (informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
  • (obsolete) A field.
  • (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).
  • (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.

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Similar Sounds

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