Morgen Definition

môrgən
morgen
noun
A unit of land measure formerly used in the Netherlands and its possessions, and still used in South Africa, equal to about 2 acres.
Webster's New World
A unit of land measure formerly used in Prussia, Denmark, and Norway, equal to about23 acre.
Webster's New World

Origin of Morgen

  • Dutch morning (referring to the amount of land that can be plowed in a morning) from Middle Dutch morghen

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From German Morgen (“measure of land")

    From Wiktionary

Morgen Sentence Examples

  • The general surface measure is the old Amsterdam Morgen, reckoned equal to 2.11654 acres; 1000 Cape lineal feet are equal to 1033 British imperial feet.

  • The land under cultivation in 1904 was 371,515 morgen (a morgen is 21 I acres) or about 1230 sq.

  • Robin Hood is Hod, the god of the wind, a form of Woden; Maid Marian is Morgen, the dawn-maiden; Friar Tuck is Toki, the spirit of frost and snow."

  • Fruit farming engages attention, about 8000 morgen being devoted to orchards in 1904.

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