Acre vs. Hectare

A unit of area in the US Customary System, used in land and sea floor measurement and equal to 160 square rods, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. See Table at measurement.

A metric unit of area equal to 100 ares (2.471 acres). See Table at measurement.

Acres Property in the form of land; estate.

A unit of surface area (symbol ha) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water.

(Archaic) A field or plot of arable land.

A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.

Often acres A wide expanse, as of land or other matter

(abbreviated `ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters)

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 meters.

An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.

Any of various similar units of area in other systems.

A wide expanse.

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 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).

(obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.

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.

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

A territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru

A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean