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Morgen

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    A unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent to about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare. historical

    "‘All my life spent hating a poor little tyrant on a few morgen of poor soil, and he'd never known anything else.’"

  2. 2
    a South African unit of measure equal to about 2 acres wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Morgen.

Etymology 2

From Dutch morgen and German Morgen, both literally "morning", probably originally indicated the amount of land that can be ploughed by a team of oxen in a morning. Doublet of morn and morrow.

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