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Acres

noun

Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use. Synonyms: demesne, estate, land, landed estate.

Acre

noun

A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.

A territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru.

A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean. Synonyms: Accho, Akka, Akko.

Acris

noun

Cricket frogs. Synonym: genus Acris.

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"Acres" Quotes from Famous Books

... (1) If Acres is with (i.e. is in the same party with) his wife, and Barry with his, and Eden with Mrs. Hall, Cole must be with ...

— Symbolic Logic • Lewis Carroll

... anxious to obtain this meadow (which consists of about fourteen acres), and, believing that the Trustees of Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School at Rochester were not empowered to sell their land, he purchased a field at the back of his own shrubbery from Mr. Brooker, of Higham, with a view—as appears ...

— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes

... ground which it includes, is several acres in extent. A terrace encloses it toward the lagoon; on the side of the land, a palisade with several gates. These are scarce intended for defence; a man, if he were strong, might easily pluck down the palisade; he need not be specially active ...

— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson

... large house near, and who nominally was a Unitarian, having professed himself a Unitarian in the town in which he was formerly in business, where Unitarianism was flourishing. He had come down here to cultivate, for amusement, a few acres of ground, and play the squire at a cheap rate. Released from active employment, he had given himself over to eating and drinking, particularly the drinking of port wine. His wife was dead, his sons were in business for themselves, and ...

— The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford • Mark Rutherford

... spare for the sort of things that everybody ought to have. It's everywhere just like it was at school. They kept us so hard at it, studying Greek roots, we hadn't time to learn English grammar. Look at young Dennis Yewbury. He's got two thousand acres up in Scotland. He could lead a jolly life turning the place into some real use. Instead of which he lets it all run to waste for nothing but to breed a few hundred birds that wouldn't keep a single family ...

— They and I • Jerome K. Jerome

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