Synonyms:
estate, land, landed_estate, acres, demesne
Meaning: extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
Usage examples
"A garden with two acres of land!"
It covers thirteen acres of ground and is four hundred and fifty feet high.
I also secured sixteen thousand acres in which the deposit was proportionately as large.
It is not two years since I saw a proprietor destroy a forest more than five hundred acres in extent.
"And you would be pleased to have, instead of this terrace of twenty feet, an enclosure of two acres?"
The house of supposition, The glimmering frontier That skirts the acres of perhaps, To me shows insecure.
Subsoil ploughing annexes to agricultural land new layers of soil that are just as important as new acres added to the surface.
We actually pressed the English growers so closely that more than fifteen thousand acres of hops were destroyed in that country.
These few acres alone contained sufficient ore to supply the whole United States iron trade, including exports, for seventy years."
In the midst of the open, prairie there is a "motte"--a coppice, or clump of trees--of perhaps three or four acres in superficial extent.