acres
Meaning
plural of acre
acre
- An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
- (historical) An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
- Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
- (informal, plural-normally) A wide expanse.
- (informal, plural-normally) A large quantity.
- (obsolete) A field.
- (obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m).
- (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈeɪ.kəz/
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