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Meanings of acres in English

Portuguese
fazenda
Catalan
hisenda
Spanish
finca

Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.

        fazenda
        Usage of acres in English
        1
        Kystarnik had bought a house on seven acres almost twenty years ago.
        Body work
        2
        About 240 million acres of America's forests are owned by the government.
        A walk in the woods: rediscovering america on the appalachian tr...
        3
        We plant thousands of acres of carrots without having anything in writing.
        The Guardian
        4
        Only about 13 million acres are enrolled in the platform's premium services.
        Reuters
        5
        About 40 acres have been lost from the spit as a result.
        The Irish Times
        6
        And his hat is down in the middle of the nineteen acres.
        The Small House at Allington
        7
        Sixteen hundred and fifty acres of the best land in the world.
        A Daughter of the Land
        8
        He bought the enormous area of seventy-five thousand acres at one purchase.
        Autobiography of mark twain, vol. 1
        9
        Croatia started stronger, constantly finding acres of space down the left flank.
        News.com.au
        10
        In recent years, we planted a further 12 acres of mixed woodland.
        Independent.ie
        11
        It stands on four acres including lawns, paddock and large fruit gardens.
        The Irish Times
        12
        The company has also taken an option on a further three acres.
        The Irish Times
        13
        In 1907 I got a little farm of forty acres in Connecticut.
        Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fir...
        14
        There was actually a lot of water flowing under those arid acres.
        A nose for justice
        15
        Those two rows were in a field of several acres in size.
        Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. / A Weekly Jour...
        16
        Five acres of Ruby Reds and a house in 1920 Spanish style.
        Junky
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