feddan

/fuh-dahn, -dan/US // fəˈdɑn, -ˈdæn //

冯德伦,冯达,冯小刚,冯德庸

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural fed·dan, fed·dans.
- : an Egyptian unit of area equivalent to 1.038 acres.

In the Egypt of to-day land is measured by feddans, the feddan (or paddmi) being the equivalent of our acre.
As he approached it, the lanes leading to the Feddan were being cleared for the mad antics of the Aissawa.
Every feddan he had he had honestly earned, but this was his way of offering backsheesh.
One or two little cafés we passed round the feddan, and banished any connection between them and lunch for ever and a day.
Against thy feddan shall be set my date-tree; it hath been so ever.