word-vault/dist/data/cards/ac/acre.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "acre",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a unit for measuring an area of land; 4 840 square yards or about 4 050 square metres",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "3 000 acres of parkland"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a three-acre wood"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Each house has acres of space around it *(= a lot of space)*."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Farming", "Maths and measurement"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈeɪkə(r)/",
                "audio": "ac/acre/acre__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈeɪkər/",
                "audio": "ac/acre/acre__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "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."
}