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Hectare   Listen
noun
Hectare  n.  A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hectare" Quotes from Famous Books



... find certain English notions concerning peasant property entirely disproved. So far is French territory from being cut into minute portions of land, that on this side of Mende farms are let, not by the hectare, but by the tract, many tenant farmers being unable to tell you of how many hectares their occupation consists. The extent of land is reckoned not by acreage, but by the heads of cattle it ...
— The Roof of France • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... tilled by one family in Japan does not exceed one hectare" (2.471 acres), less than two and a half acres. ("Japan in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century," page 89. Published by the Department of Agriculture and ...
— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall



Words linked to "Hectare" :   are, ar



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