ACRES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acres mean? 

• ACRES (noun)
  The noun ACRES has 1 sense:

1. extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use

  Familiarity information: ACRES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACRES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

acres; demesne; estate; land; landed estate

Context example:

the family owned a large estate on Long Island

Hypernyms ("acres" is a kind of...):

immovable; real estate; real property; realty (property consisting of houses and land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acres"):

freehold (an estate held in fee simple or for life)

glebe (plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office)

leasehold (land or property held under a lease)

smallholding (a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation)

homestead (land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law)

feoff; fief (a piece of land held under the feudal system)

barony (the estate of a baron)

countryseat (an estate in the country)

Crown land (land that belongs to the Crown)

manor (the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it))

seigneury; seigniory; signory (the estate of a seigneur)

hacienda (a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries)

plantation (an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas))

entail (land received by fee tail)

 Context examples 

Smith has not much above a hundred acres altogether in his grounds, which is little enough, and makes it more surprising that the place can have been so improved.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Owns about two hundred and fifty thousand acres.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The flying or floating island is exactly circular, its diameter 7837 yards, or about four miles and a half, and consequently contains ten thousand acres.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Would you wish by trick or quibble to juggle me out of these last acres?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under a heavy mortgage.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The valley ran from the horseshoe, land-locked bay to the tops of the dizzy, cloud-capped peaks and contained perhaps ten thousand acres.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It contains in all some twenty acres, quite surrounded by the solid stone wall above mentioned.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The estate at Winthrop is not less than two hundred and fifty acres, besides the farm near Taunton, which is some of the best land in the country.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The Arapaho have plans to widen the buffalo's range to 600 acres and report they are considering eventually pooling resources with the nearby Eastern Shoshone Tribe, who currently have a herd of 33 buffalo.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

Is there even such a thing as a healthy plant microbiome in today's agricultural fields, with acres of identical plants assaulted by pesticides and herbicides and fertilizers?

(How do you cultivate a healthy plant microbiome?, National Science Foundation)