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English

Alternative forms

• cyte (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English city, citie, citee, cite, from Old French cité, from Latin c?vit?s (“citizenry; community; a city with its hinterland”), from c?vis (“native; townsman; citizen”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to lie down, settle; home, family; love; beloved”).

Cognate with Old English h?wan pl (“members of one's household, servants”). See hewe. Doublet of civitas.

Displaced native Middle English burgh, borough (“fortified town; incorporated city”) and sted, stede (“place, stead; city”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?ti/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /s?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??i/
• Rhymes: -?ti
• Hyphenation: ci?ty

Noun

city (plural cities)

1. A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
2. (Britain) A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
   • 1976, Cornelius P. Darcy, The Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Lancashire, 1760-1860, Manchester University Press (?ISBN), page 20

     Manchester, incorporated in 1838, was made the centre of a bishopric in 1847 and became a city in 1853. Liverpool was transformed into a city by Royal Charter when the new diocese of Liverpool was created in 1880.

   • 2014, Graham Rutt, Cycling Britain's Cathedrals Volume 1, Lulu.com (?ISBN), page 307

     St Davids itself is the smallest city in Great Britain, with a population of less than 2,000.

3. (Australia) The central business district; downtown.

4. (slang) A large amount of something (used after the noun).

   It's video game city in here!

Hypernyms

• settlement

Derived terms

Pages starting with “city”.

Related terms

• civic
• civil

Descendants

• ? French: City
• ? German: City
• ? Italian: city
• ? Swedish: city

Translations

See also

• metropolis
• megalopolis
• megacity
• multicity

Further reading

• "city" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 55.

Anagrams

• ICTY

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?t?]

Noun

city

1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of cit

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English city. Doublet of città.

Noun

city f (invariable)

1. city (financial district of a city)

Derived terms

• city bike
• city car
• city manager

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English city.

Pronunciation

Noun

city n

1. inner city, the commercial centre of a medium-sized or larger city

   Lite närmare city, i närheten av konstmuseet, ligger Norrköpings mest attraktiva lägenheter.

   A little closer to the town centre, next to the art museum, you'll find Norrköping's most attractive apartments.

   Det finns mycket att förbättra i vårt city.

   There are many things that need improvement in our inner city.

Usage notes

• centrum is used for the commercial centre of suburbs and small or medium-sized towns.

Synonyms

• centrum
• innerstad

English

Alternative forms

• aker (archaic)
• acer (-er form, chiefly UK)

Etymology

From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros (“field”).

Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian 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 ????? (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit ???? (ájra, “field, plain”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ??k?, IPA^(key): /?e?.k?/
• (General American) enPR: ??k?r, IPA^(key): /?e?.k?/
• Rhymes: -e?k?(?)

Noun

acre (plural acres)

1. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
   1. (Chester, historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
2. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
3. (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.

4. (informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
5. (obsolete) A field.
6. (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).
7. (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.

Synonyms

• (approximate): day's math, demath
• (Egyptian): feddan
• (Dutch): morgen
• (French): arpent, arpen, pose
• (India): cawney, cawny, bigha
• (Ireland): Irish acre, collop, plantation acre
• (Roman): juger, jugerum
• (Scottish): Scottish acre, Scots acre, Scotch acre, acair
• (Wales): Welsh acre, cover, cyfair, erw, stang

Hypernyms

• (100 carucates, notionally) See hundred
• (the area able to be plowed by 8 oxen in a year) See carucate
• (the area able to be plowed by two oxen in a year) See virgate
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in a year) See oxgang
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in half a season) See nook
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in ¹?₄ a season) See fardel
• (10 acres, prob. spurious) acreme

Hyponyms

• (¹?₄ acre) See rood
• (¹?₁₆₀ acre) lug, perch, (now chiefly Scottish) fall

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: acra
• Norwegian Bokmål: acre

Translations

References

• Robert Holland, M.R.A.C., A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Part I--A to F., English Dialect Society, London, 1884, 3

See also

• international acre
• north forty
• US survey acre
• Weights and measures
• Wikipedia article on the acre
• Hufe

References

Anagrams

• -care, CERA, Care, Cera, Crea, Race, acer, care, e-car, race, race-

French

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse akr reenforced by Old English æcer (“a field, land, that which is sown, sown land, cultivated land; a definite quantity of land, land which a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, an acre, a certain quantity of land, strip of plough-land; crop”) .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak?/

Noun

acre f (plural acres)

1. (historical) acre

Further reading

• “acre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• âcre, care, créa, race

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ?cre, neuter nominative singular of ?cer (“sharp”). Doublet of agro.

Adjective

acre (plural acri)

1. sharp, sour
2. harsh

Related terms

Anagrams

• care, cera, c'era, crea, reca

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?.kre/, [?ä?k??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.kre/, [???k??]

Adjective

?cre

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of ?cer

References

• acre in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acre in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• acre in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

acre f (plural acres)

1. (Jersey) acre

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English acre, from Middle English acre, aker (“field, acre”), from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown, acre”), from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r (“field, open land”), from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field, open land”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros (“field, pasturage”), possibly from *h?e?- (“to drive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?k?r/
• Rhymes: -?r
• Hyphenation: a?cre
• Homophone: eiker

Noun

acre m (definite singular acren, indefinite plural acre or acres, definite plural acrene)

1. an acre (an English unit of land area (symbol: ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters)

References

• “acre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “acre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “acre” in Store norske leksikon

Anagrams

• race

Old Irish

Noun

acre n

1. Alternative spelling of acrae

Mutation

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?a.k??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.k?i/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.k?e/
• Homophone: Acre
• Hyphenation: a?cre

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ?cre, neuter nominative singular of ?cer (“sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *h??rós (“sharp”). Doublet of agre, agro, ágrio.

Alternative forms

• agre

Adjective

acre m or f (plural acres, comparable)

1. sharp (unpleasantly acrid or tart in taste)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English acre, from Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer, from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros (“field”). Doublet of agro.

Noun

acre m (plural acres)

1. acre (unit of surface area)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.kre/

Adjective

acre

1. feminine/neuter plural nominative/accusative of acru

Scots

Alternative forms

• aker, acker

Etymology

From Middle English aker, from Old English æcer (“field; acre”). Cognate with English acre; see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ek?r], [?j?k?r]
• (South Scots) IPA^(key): [?ak?r], [??k?r]

Noun

acre (plural acres)

1. An acre (unit of measurement)

Usage notes

The plural is acre when following a numeral.

Verb

acre (third-person singular present acres, present participle acrin, past acrit, past participle acrit)

1. To let grain crops be harvested at a stated sum per acre.
2. To be employed in harvesting grain crops at a stated sum per acre.

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ak?e/, [?a.k?e]

Etymology 1

From Latin ?cer (genitive singular ?cris). Cf. also agrio.

Adjective

acre (plural acres)

1. bitter; acrid; pungent
2. caustic

Derived terms

• acremente

Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of agro.

Noun

acre m (plural acres)

1. acre

Anagrams

• arce, caer, cera, crea

Further reading

• “acre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.