acreage definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming); "he wanted some acreage to build on" [syn: acreage, land area]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1859 area in acres ; acres

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a number of acres. 2 an extent of land.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Acreage A"cre*age, n. Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(acreages) Acreage is a large area of farm land. (FORMAL) He has sown coffee on part of his acreage... Enormous acreages of soya beans are grown in the United States. N-VAR

Moby Thesaurus

area, breadth, continuum, dimension, emptiness, empty space, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, field, galactic space, infinite space, interstellar space, measure, nothingness, outer space, proportion, space, spatial extension, sphere, spread, superficial extension, surface, tract, void, volume