acres
UK/ˈeɪ.kəz/US/ˈeɪ.kɚz/
acres is the plural of acre.
Meaning of acre
Noun
acre (plural acres or (UK colloquial) acre)
- An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
- Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
- An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
- Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
- A wide expanse.
- I like my new house—there’s acres of space!
- A large quantity.
- A field.
Phrases with acres
- long acres
- black acres
- Boles Acres
- broad acres
- Derby Acres
- God's acres
- green acres
- Irish acres
- Scots acres
- Welsh acres
- white acres
- church acres
21 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Dustin Acres
- fool's acres
- Fuller Acres
- Garden Acres
- Lehigh Acres
- Madera Acres
- Scotch acres
- Valley Acres
- Cornish acres
- English acres
- statute acres
- Scottish acres
- tenantry acres
- Edmundson Acres
- US survey acres
- China Lake Acres
- Cunningham acres
- plantation acres
- Hell's Forty Acres
- international acres
- Mountain View Acres
Questions about acres
- What is acres the plural of?
- Acres is the plural of acre.
- How do you pronounce acres?
- Acres is pronounced /ˈeɪ.kəz/ (UK).
Words near acres in the dictionary
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