Plural of acre
regular plural
The plural of acre is acres.
Forms of acre
| Singular | acre /ˈeɪ.kə/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | acres /ˈeɪ.kəz/ |
| Countable | countable |
Less standard forms: acre (colloquial).
Acres in a sentence
- 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
- I like my new house—there’s acres of space!
- There are 50 acres of land in this estate.From the entry land
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:acres.From the entry acres
- The plantable area of the field was about two acres.From the entry plantable
Meaning of acre
- noun 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.
- noun An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
- noun Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
Questions about the plural of acre
- What is the plural of acre?
- The plural of acre is acres.
- Is acre countable?
- Acre is a countable noun.
- Is acre correct?
- acre is marked colloquial in Wiktionary. The usual plural of acre is acres.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: acre (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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