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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of land, unit of area |
| Synonyms: | acreage, bit, estate, grounds, manor, plot, property |
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Example Sentences
- The house is set on nearly three quarters of an acre.
- Farmland is so scarce that a peasant with one acre is considered rich.
- There was sufficient lum ber on this acre to have covered it with a solid block of frame dwellings ten stories high.
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