acre
noun
a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
acres
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pluralof acre.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Located just over an hour away from his Malibu Colony retreat, the funky dwelling, which is set on 5.7 acres, has a total of five bedrooms and five bathrooms.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
A land trust will now steward the roughly 63 acres.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
A few weeks before Robert arrived in Baku, Mr. Brunt relates, the czar had “set more than 3,000 acres of prime oil lands for auction to private speculators.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
The blaze had grown to 10,374 acres, with 26% containment, as of Thursday afternoon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
In the early 1600s, the British seized a half-million acres from Irish farmers, drove them from their lands, and opened those lands to settlers who would be under English protection.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
