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How to pronounce acres in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms demesne, estate, land, landed estate
Type of immovable, real estate, real property, realty
Has types feoff, fief, freehold, glebe, hacienda, homestead, leasehold, manor, plantation, seigneury, seigniory, signory, barony, smallholding, countryseat, crown land, entail

Examples of acres

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The Penguins hold the development rights to the 28 acres that include the arena.
From the post-gazette.com
Priced at $25 million, it has 314 acres and thousands of feet of pristine beach.
From the forbes.com
The USDA hasn't even started tracking acres harvested in its weekly reports yet.
From the dailyherald.com
An estimated 130,000 acres were flooded in Missouri because of the levee breach.
From the stltoday.com
The main residence sits on almost 58 acres boasting expansive gardens and woods.
From the forbes.com
The Park spans over 410 acres and includes a lake, canal and a number of villas.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Any Ferrari owner, for instance, can show-off acres of crackling red cam covers.
From the smh.com.au
The park spans over 410 acres and includes a lake, canal and a number of villas.
From the independent.co.uk
It's set in five acres of private parkland, so you won't disturb the neighbours.
From the guardian.co.uk
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  • A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries
  • A territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru
  • A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean
  • (acres) estate: extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
  • The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land.
  • Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) is a charity that acts as the national organisation for thiry-eight Rural Community Councils across England.
  • An Irish acre is a unit of area historically used in Ireland, Yorkshire, and regions bordering the Solway Firth.
  • Acre (/u02C8u0251u02D0ku0259r/ or /u02C8eu026Aku0259r/, Hebrew: u05E2u05B7u05DBu05BCu05D5u05B9, u02BBAkko, most commonly spelled as Akko; Arabic: u0639u0643u0651u0627u200Eu200E, u02BBAkku0101) is a city in the northern coastal plain region of the Northern District, Israel at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay. The city occupies an important location, as it sits on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, traditionally linking the waterways and commercial activity with the Levant...
  • The Acre River (called Aquiry in the local Iu00F1apari language; locally, Rio Acre) is a 680 kilometres (420u00A0mi) long river in central South America.