acres
- 1Plural of acre.
The estate spans nearly two hundred acres of woodland and pasture.
Developers bought up the surrounding acres for a new housing project.
Note
The plural carries more than measurement. Two informal senses of acre live almost entirely in it: a wide expanse and a large quantity, as in acres of empty parking lot or acres of free time. Before a noun, a measured area returns to the singular and takes a hyphen, so it is a five-acre plot, never a five-acres plot. After a number it stays plural: two hundred acres.
The new mall is surrounded by acres of empty parking lot.
Once the kids left for college, she suddenly had acres of free time.
acres is a form of acre
acre, noun: An English unit of land area, originally a day's plowing for a team of oxen, now fixed at 4,840 square yards, or about 4,046.86 square meters. Full entry
- Forms
- acreacres plural
- Spelling
- acre → acres: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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