English Explanatory Dictionary

Goodacre

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Goodacre Goodacres

Etymology

Three possible origins: * An English topographic surname for someone who farmed a productive piece of land, from Middle English good (“good”) + aker (“acre, field”). * An English habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from Middle English goot (“goat”) + aker (“acre, field”). * An Americanized spelling of the German surname Gutacker, from gut (“good”) + Acker (“field”).

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