hectare

• hektare (dated)

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛk.tɛə/, /ˈhɛk.tɑː/^[1][2]

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛk.tɛɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈhektaː/, /ˈhektɛː/

hectare (plural hectares)

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.
   • 1997, “Buying a Rural Property”, in Back to Basics, Surry Hills, NSW: Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Limited, page 10:

     With careful planning almost anyone can turn the dream of owning a small farm or a few hectares of country land into a reality.

   • 2007 June 16, William Powers, Glenn Hurowitz, “Home on the Rainforest”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     One hectare (about 2.5 acres) of forest cleared and converted to ranchland or crops produces a piece of land worth, on average, $200 to $500.

   • 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[4], volume 188, number 22, page 30:

     Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field. In Paris 22 hectares of roof have been planted, out of a potential total of 80 hectares.

• (SI unit): (rare) square hectometre

• acre
• Not to be confused with hector.

• cheater, rechate, recheat, reteach, teacher

Borrowed from French hectare. Equivalent to hecto- +‎ are.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦɛkˈtaː.rə/

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• Hyphenation: hec‧ta‧re
• Rhymes: -aːrə

hectare f (plural hectaren or hectares, diminutive hectaretje n)

1. hectare

• ha

• (dialectal) bunder (symbol b)

• → Caribbean Javanese: èktar
• → Indonesian: hektare
• → Papiamentu: hèktar

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.taʁ/

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hectare m (plural hectares)

1. hectare

• → Vietnamese: héc-ta

hectare

1. inflection of hectarer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “hectare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French hectare.

• Hyphenation: hec‧ta‧re

hectare m (plural hectares)

1. hectare (unit of surface area)

• IPA^(key): [hekˈtare]

hectare n

1. indefinite plural of hectar