hectare

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun (abbreviated `ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters)

Borrowed from French hectare, formed from Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón, “hundred”) + are, equivalent to hect- + are.

1 Hectare = 2.471 acres. — Practical Mechanics for Boys, James Slough Zerbe
Solid matter had wrested from liquid matter some 37,657,000 square miles, hence 12,916,000,000 hectares. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne
The park of Saint Cloud to-day contains nearly four hundred hectares, the public park and the "preserve." — Royal Palaces and Parks of France, M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

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