Meaning

1 senses
  1. A unit of surface area (symbol ㏊) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water.

    Hektar

    гекта́рgektár, гаga

    гекта́рhektár, гаha

    (abbreviated ‘ha’) a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters)

Examples

21 sentences
  1. The rainforests are disappearing at the rate of tens of thousands of hectares a day.

    ruТропические леса исчезают со скоростью нескольких десятков тысяч гектаров в день.

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  2. We cultivate twenty hectares of land.

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  3. I have a hectare of land.

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  4. It requires a hectare of land.

    deDas erfordert einen Hektar Land.

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  5. That requires a hectare of land.

    deDas erfordert einen Hektar Land.

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Translations

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Origin

Borrowed from French hectare, formed from Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón, “hundred”) + are,

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

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Forms

plural: hectares
Singularhectare
Pluralhectares

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
SI unit:square hectometre

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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