(ā′kər) noun
1. A measure of land, commonly 160 square rods; also 43,560 square feet, 4,840 square yards, or 0.404 hectare. The Scottish acre contains about 6,150 square yards and the Irish acre. 7,840.
2. A field.
3. plural Lands.
—God's acre A churchyard or burial ground. [OE æcer field]

(ä′kər, ā′kər)
A resort town NE of Haifa, Israel, on the Bay of Acre of the eastern Mediterranean: Old Testament Accho; New Testament Ptolemais: called Saint Jean d′A·cre (sa zhä dá′kr′)
during the Crusades. Hebrew: Akko.

(á′kri)
A federal state in western Brazil; 59,139 square miles; capital, Rio Branco.