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acreage

UK/ˈeɪk(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
nounC2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,976 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: acreages

Acreage is the extent of a piece of land measured in acres. The total acreage, a large acreage, acreage under wheat.

It is the standard word in farming and property, where acreage under a crop is how a harvest is forecast. The acre itself was as much land as a team of oxen could plough in a day.

Definitions of acreage

  1. 1nounacreageThe extent of a piece of land measured in acres.C2

    “The farm's acreage has doubled since his father bought the land next door.”

acreage is a measure.

Where it comes from

  1. Middle English

    aker

  2. English

    acre

  3. English, today

    acreage

From acre + -age. acre comes from Middle English aker. From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic akr, from Proto-Germanic akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European h₂éǵros (“field”). a doublet of agriculture. Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), frr ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (“field”), Sanskrit अज्र (“field, plain”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

acreage in the wild

  • The larger southern section, about 60% of the total acreage, is located north of Louisville, in parts of Winston, Choctaw, and Oktibbeha counties in eastern Mississippi.

    Tombigbee National Forest

  • The 1996 Act authorized new enrollments in the Conservation Reserve Program to maintain total acreage at up to 36,400,000 acres.

    Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996

  • On July 1, 1908 it gave up some acreage to California National Forest.

    Trinity National Forest

  • Trinity National Forest is located overwhelmingly in Trinity County, which has 89.46% of its acreage.

    Trinity National Forest

  • The central estate area is shown moated with core agricultural buildings as well as outlying acreage as at 1680 in an engraving of the mid 18th century.

    Rosendal Castle

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • acre