estate

es·tate (

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1. A landed property, usually of considerable size.

2. The whole of one's possessions, especially all the property and debts left by one at death.

3. Law The nature and extent of an owner's rights with respect to land or other property.

4. Chiefly British A housing development.

5. The situation or circumstances of one's life: A child's estate gives way to the adult's estate.

6. Social position or rank, especially of high order.

7. A major social class, such as the clergy, the nobility, or the commons, formerly possessing distinct political rights.

8. Archaic Display of wealth or power; pomp.

[Middle English estat, condition, from Old French; see state.]

estate

Noun

1. a large piece of landed property, esp. in the country

2. Brit & Austral a large area of land with houses or factories built on it: an industrial estate

3. Law property or possessions, esp. of a deceased person

4. History any of the orders or classes making up a society [Latin status condition]

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Noun	1.	estate - everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities belongings, property, holding - something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property"; gross estate - the total valuation of the estate's assets at the time of the person's death net estate - the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate; the estate then left to be distributed (and subject to federal and state inheritance taxes) estate for life, life estate - (law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it jointure, legal jointure - (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower
	2.	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" acres, demesne, landed estate, land freehold - an estate held in fee simple or for life immovable, real estate, real property, realty - property consisting of houses and land glebe - plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office leasehold - land or property held under a lease smallholding - a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation homestead - land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law feoff, fief - a piece of land held under the feudal system barony - the estate of a baron countryseat - an estate in the country Crown land - land that belongs to the Crown manor - the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it) seigneury, seigniory, signory - the estate of a seigneur hacienda - a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries plantation - an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) entail - land received by fee tail
	3.	estate - a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights estate of the realm, the three estates social class, socio-economic class, stratum, class - people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class" first estate, Lords Spiritual - the clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain Lords Temporal, second estate - the nobility in France and the peerage in Britain third estate, Commons - the common people fourth estate - the press, including journalists, newspaper writers, photographers body politic, country, nation, res publica, commonwealth, state, land - a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe