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Definition: Acreage |
AcreageNoun1. An area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming); "he wanted some acreage to build on". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "acreage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
Synonym: AcreageSynonym: land area (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Space | Proportions, acreage; acres, acres and perches, roods and perches, hectares, square miles; square inches, square yards, square centimeters, square meters, yards (clothing); ares, arpents. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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 | Food in England. Members of the Women's Land Army in Britain help drain marshy land to provide extra arable acreage and grazing ground. With three large drag-line machines they are preparing 4,000 acres of soggy Devon land for grazing.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | This man was a tenant on the same farm for eighteen years. He has six children. This year he was forced into status of day laborer on the same farm. The farm owner employed twenty-three tenant families last year. This year, the same acreage, using tractor.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Farmer signing a wind erosion agreement. He will receive twenty cents an acre for listing a certain percentage of his total acreage. Dodge City, Kansas.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housing project seen from the acreage of an old homestead which will be included in the expanding home village of the Hercules Powder Company workers. Radford, Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Uzbekistan | Additionally, Uzbekistan shifted some of its crop acreage from cotton to grains to approach grain self-sufficiency as well. (references) |
Bangladesh | However, the FY2000 production loss was caused by the sharp fall in the crop acreage owing to a severe drought during the planting season. (references) | |
Colombia | The slight demand recovery and expanded credit availability from the Colombian Government is expected to result in an increase in acreage this year. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Acreage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.02% of the time. "Acreage" is used about 102 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.02% | 101 | 32,488 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.98% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 102 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "acreage": cultivated acreage. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
acreage | 256 |
acreage for sale | 207 |
acreage florida | 48 |
acreage calculator | 36 |
acreage for sale florida | 28 |
acreage texas | 26 |
real estate acreage | 26 |
acreage virginia | 20 |
acreage for sale ohio | 17 |
acreage arizona | 16 |
acreage calculate | 16 |
home with acreage | 14 |
lots acreage | 14 |
acreage for sale washington | 13 |
acreage conversion | 12 |
acreage american | 12 |
acreage colorado | 11 |
acreage for sale oklahoma | 10 |
acreage oklahoma | 10 |
acreage calculation | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "acreage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sipërfaqe në akra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المساحة الأكرية, أكرات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | площ (area, location, space). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 英亩 (Acre, acres). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | výmìra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | prospekteringsværdigt område (prospective acreage), opdyrket omraade (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, cultivated land, land under crop), område med påvist forekomst (proved acreage), dyrket omraade (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, cultivated land, land under crop), dyrket areal (arable lands, area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, cultivated land, land under crop, plough lands, tilled lands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | <opppervlakte in acres>. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وسعت زمین به جریب . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viljelyala (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, cultivated land, land under crop), tuottava lisenssialue (prospective acreage), tuottava alue (prospective acreage), todennettu kenttä (proved acreage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | superficie de terrain en acres, superficie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Anbaufläche (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivable land, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, cultivated land, land under crop, sown area), Fläche (area, expanse, face, field, flat, land surface, plane, sheet, summit, surface, surface area, thick, thick stroke, top, total surface area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έμβαδο στρεμμάτων, έμβαδο (area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | földterület kiterjedése acre-ben. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | areal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | superficie in acri, ruperficie in acri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 地積 , 段別 (land area, marking off fields in units of tan), 反別 (land area, marking off fields in units of tan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た"べつ (land area, marking off fields in units of tan), ちせき (administration, land register). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 평수. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | acyrys, acyraght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acreageay medida em acres. (various references) suprafaţã de pãmânt în acri. (various references) акр (acre), площадь (area, piazza, piazze, plaza). (various references) površina u jutrima. (various references) superficie en acres. (various references) areal (area). (various references) arazinin büyüklüğü, yüzölçümü (area, floor space). (various references) площа землі в акрах. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "acreage": acreages. (additional references) | |
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"Acreage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acarigua, acerage, Aciego, Acireale, acrage, acrange, acrege, Akerele, arage, arcage, areae, arledge, Cgegae, Cre-ange, Creige, Macgeagh, Mcteague. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "acreage" (pronounced ā"kruj) |
| 3 | -r u j | cartridge, miscarriage, peerage, porridge, storage. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-g-r" | |
-2 letters: agree, areae, areca, cager, eager, eagre, grace, ragee. | |
-3 letters: acre, agar, agee, ager, area, cage, care, cere, crag, eger, gear, gree, race, raga, rage. | |
-4 letters: ace, aga, age, arc, are, car, cee, ear, era, ere, erg, gae, gar, gee, rag, rec, ree, reg. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, ar, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-g-r" | |
+1 letter: acreages, carageen, gearcase. | |
+2 letters: carageens, carrageen, cellarage, gearcases, repackage. | |
+3 letters: carrageens, carragheen, cellarages, chargeable, gearchange, megaparsec, prepackage, repackaged, repackager, repackages, scapegrace. | |
+4 letters: carrageenan, carrageenin, carragheens, chaperonage, gearchanges, macrogamete, megaparsecs, overpackage, paragenetic, prepackaged, prepackages, repackagers, scapegraces. | |
+5 letters: accelerating, acromegalies, aeromagnetic, archegoniate, carpetbagger, carrageenans, carrageenins, chaperonages, exacerbating, extravagance, macrogametes, overpackaged, overpackages, rechargeable, reescalating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 72 65 61 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. .-. . .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c r e a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0072 0065 0061 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35698471677371 |
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