English Explanatory Dictionary

Hardacre

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Middle English.

Word forms

Hardacre Hardacres

Etymology

Topographic surname for someone who lived on a patch of poor, stony land, from Middle English hard (“hard”) + aker (“acre, field”).

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