What does acreage mean?
Word: Acreage
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Acreage means the size of a piece of land, especially farm land.
How do you spell acreage?
Syllables: a - cre - age
Tricky part: Fast speech swallows the middle of this word, so pupils lose the e after the r and write acrage.
Watch out for: acrage, acerage
Memory tip: Keep every letter of acre, e included, when the ending joins on.
Acreage in a sentence
Example 1: My uncle wants to increase the acreage under sugar cane next year.
Example 2: The acreage of this coffee estate is the largest in Coorg.
Example 3: Farmers in Punjab have added more acreage of wheat this season.
Fun Fact
The measure behind this word goes back to medieval England, where it meant the land that a pair of oxen could plough in one day.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Before the monsoon arrived, the careful planter at the tea estate in Assam walked the whole acreige of his garden with a surveyor and a notebook.
a) careful
b) monsoon
c) acreige
d) surveyor
Show answer
c) acreige. The ending of this word is age, as in image.
Mingle-Mangle
Rearrange the jumbled letters in the sentence to form the right word:
Papa's cousin bought two more fields, so the total raeaceg of his mango farm doubled.
a) average
b) carriage
c) acreage
d) anchorage
Show answer
c) acreage. Anchorage needs an n, average a v and carriage an i.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word acreage as used in the sentence:
The farm's total acreage has grown by a fifth since 2010.
a) area
b) income
c) staff
d) output
Show answer
a) area. The word is about how much land there is, so area is the match.
Spell-o-Spell
Three words in the list are spelt correctly and one is misspelt. Choose what the misspelt one means.
1. acreage 2. plantasion 3. orchard 4. hectare
a) a piece of land planted with fruit trees
b) a metric unit for measuring land
c) a large farm where one crop is grown
d) the size of a piece of land
Show answer
c) a large farm where one crop is grown. Plantation ends in tion.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In which job would you talk about acreage most often?
a) repairing watches
b) driving a school bus
c) teaching a dance class
d) managing a coffee estate
Show answer
d) managing a coffee estate
2. Two farms have the same acreage. What can you say for certain?
a) Each has as many workers as the other.
b) Each earns as much as the other.
c) Each grows the same crop as the other.
d) Each covers as much ground as the other.
Show answer
d) Each covers as much ground as the other.
