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    ACRE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterraneanplay

    Synonyms:

    Accho; Acre; Akka; Akko

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

    town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

    Holonyms ("Acre" is a part of...):

    Israel; Sion; State of Israel; Yisrael; Zion (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peruplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

    Holonyms ("Acre" is a part of...):

    Brasil; Brazil; Federative Republic of Brazil (the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countriesplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

    area unit; square measure (a system of units used to measure areas)

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     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 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)

    The number of acres contained in this garden was such as Catherine could not listen to without dismay, being more than double the extent of all Mr. Allen's, as well as her father's, including church-yard and orchard.

    (Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

    We might not, said Mr. Micawber, looking round the room as if it represented several hundred acres of highly cultivated land, on the first responsibility becoming due, have been successful in our harvest, or we might not have got our harvest in.

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

    The plan of a drain, the change of a fence, the felling of a tree, and the destination of every acre for wheat, turnips, or spring corn, was entered into with as much equality of interest by John, as his cooler manners rendered possible; and if his willing brother ever left him any thing to inquire about, his inquiries even approached a tone of eagerness.

    (Emma, by Jane Austen)

    Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I approached that island in my fancy from every possible direction; I explored every acre of its surface; I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spy-glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects.

    (Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

    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)

    Also a dress of blue sendall for mother and a red one for Joan; with five acres of pasture-land, two scythes, and a fine new grindstone.

    (The White Company, 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)


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