ACRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Acre mean? 

• ACRE (noun)
  The noun ACRE has 3 senses:

1. a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries

2. a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru

3. a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean

  Familiarity information: ACRE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("acre" is a kind of...):

area unit; square measure (a system of units used to measure areas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Holonyms ("Acre" is a part of...):

Brasil; Brazil; Federative Republic of Brazil (the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Accho; Acre; Akka; Akko

Instance hypernyms:

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Acre" is a part of...):

Israel; Sion; State of Israel; Yisrael; Zion (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine)

 Context examples 

Elementary school students sang, Elder Nelson White provided a prayer, and the buffalo were released from a livestock trailer into a into a 48-acre space set aside for them in Kinnear.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

According to the 2016 Amazon Deforestation Report (original Portuguese title: Panorama do Desmatamento da Amazônia 2016), the states with the largest increase in deforestation rates were Amazonas, Acre and Pará, with 54%, 47% and 41% respectively.

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

Is there even such a thing as a healthy plant microbiome in today's agricultural fields, with acres of identical plants assaulted by pesticides and herbicides and fertilizers?

(How do you cultivate a healthy plant microbiome?, National Science Foundation)

Cultivated peanut, Arachis hypogaea, is an important grain legume and oilseed crop, with a total global production area of approximately 59 million acres.

(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

A unit of area in British Imperial system named also the international acre.

(Acre, NCI Thesaurus)

“He would have sold me with his acres,” the other cried, in a voice which was hoarse with passion.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He has a noble palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under a heavy mortgage.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It contains in all some twenty acres, quite surrounded by the solid stone wall above mentioned.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The estate at Winthrop is not less than two hundred and fifty acres, besides the farm near Taunton, which is some of the best land in the country.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)