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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

... Mr. Kennedy had not been heard of, when some branch of the Mackenzies lived down at that wretched old tower which you see as you first come upon the lake. When old Mr. Kennedy bought it there were hardly a hundred acres on ...

— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope

... mean, that we are cramped and all that. But, really, I think we all have room enough. I think the Westerner's idea of wanting several acres to breathe in is ...

— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells

... living on irrigated land. We are not at the starting point of this development. Over two hundred millions of private capital has already been expended in the construction of irrigation works, and many million acres of arid land reclaimed. A high degree of enterprise and ability has been shown in the work itself; but as much cannot be said in reference to the laws relating thereto. The security and value of the homes created ...

— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement • Theodore Roosevelt

... am perhaps in danger of losing, not only the ten thousand acres of land I flung behind me, but a noble son, it is ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... the time in which it finds itself; it also escapes from the limitations of the place in which it happens to be. A man of deep culture cannot be a provincial; he must be a citizen of the world. The man of provincial tastes and ideas owns the acres; the man of culture commands the landscape. He knows the world beyond the hills; he sees the great movement of life from which the village seems almost shut out; he shares those inclusive experiences which come to each age and give each age a character of its own. He is in fellowship ...

— Books and Culture • Hamilton Wright Mabie

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