name, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
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"‘All my life spent hating a poor little tyrant on a few morgen of poor soil, and he'd never known anything else.’"
"‘All my life spent hating a poor little tyrant on a few morgen of poor soil, and he'd never known anything else.’"
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.
Common synonyms include: acre, dawn, early morning, forenoon, sunrise, the next day.
‘All my life spent hating a poor little tyrant on a few morgen of poor soil, and he'd never known anything else.’
Borrowed from German Morgen.
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.