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Acres

noun

1.

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

Acre

noun

1.

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

2.

A territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru.

3.

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

Acris

noun

1.

Cricket frogs. Synonym: genus Acris.

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"Acres" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the Butteries, where he had just been joined by Lord Fitzurse and Sir John D'Acres, who by virtue of their titles— certainly not by any other virtue—sat among reverend Professors and learned Doctors at the high table, far removed from the herd of common undergraduates. With the ...

— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar

... of these grassy glades, which was spread on an almost imperceptible acclivity, and which might have contained some fifty or sixty acres of land, the reader is now requested to turn his eyes. Far in the wilderness as was the spot, four men were there, and two of them had even some of the appliances of civilization about them. The woods around were the then unpeopled forest of Michigan; ...

— Oak Openings • James Fenimore Cooper

... training of a Virginia environment, placed no qualification for suffrage or office in his ordinance. The Ordinance of 1787, presumably drafted under democratic New England ideas, placed a qualification of ownership of two hundred acres of land upon a representative in the territorial legislature and of fifty acres upon an elector for a representative. Here was an illustration of that revertive tendency in the sections which has maintained the national ...

— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks

... resembles a fortress, though, unlike most of them, it has never served as such, the scene is almost rural. Pigeons, those symbols of the Holy Ghost, inviolable in Russia, attack with impunity the grain bags in the acres of storehouses opposite, pick holes, and ...

— Russian Rambles • Isabel F. Hapgood

... queer deprecating look and an injunction to keep the matter secret from Hannah. As to the use the lad made of them, Reuben was as ignorant as he was of all other practical affairs outside his own few acres. ...

— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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