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ACRES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
Example:
the family owned a large estate on Long Island
Synonyms:
acres; demesne; estate; land; landed estate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("acres" is a kind of...):
immovable; real estate; real property; realty (property consisting of houses and land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acres"):
freehold (an estate held in fee simple or for life)
glebe (plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office)
leasehold (land or property held under a lease)
smallholding (a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation)
homestead (land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law)
feoff; fief (a piece of land held under the feudal system)
barony (the estate of a baron)
countryseat (an estate in the country)
Crown land (land that belongs to the Crown)
manor (the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it))
seigneury; seigniory; signory (the estate of a seigneur)
hacienda (a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries)
plantation (an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas))
entail (land received by fee tail)
Context examples:
Cultivated peanut, Arachis hypogaea, is an important grain legume and oilseed crop, with a total global production area of approximately 59 million acres.
(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
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 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)
He has a noble palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“He would have sold me with his acres,” the other cried, in a voice which was hoarse with passion.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A considerable flight of steps landed them in the wilderness, which was a planted wood of about two acres, and though chiefly of larch and laurel, and beech cut down, and though laid out with too much regularity, was darkness and shade, and natural beauty, compared with the bowling-green and the terrace.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
My father has broad acres, the other continued, from Fareham Creek to the slope of the Portsdown Hill.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Say rather ten acres and a homestead on the banks of Avon.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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)
