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[ˈeɪkə], (Noun)
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- a unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards (0.405 hectare)
(e.g: he farms 1,200 acres in East Yorkshire)
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Old English æcer (denoting the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plough in a day), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch akker and German Acker ‘field’, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit ajra ‘field’, Latin ager, and Greek agros
[], (Noun)
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- an industrial seaport of Israel; population 46,300 (est. 2008)
- a state of western Brazil, on the border with Peru; capital, Rio Branco
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