morgen

name

1. A surname from German.

noun

1. (historical)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.

   “‘All my life spent hating a poor little tyrant on a few morgen of poor soil, and he'd never known anything else.’”