estate
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)estates
- everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilitiesType of property, belongingsKinds net estate, jointure, gross estate, life estate
- extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for their own use“the family owned a large estate on Long Island”Synonyms: landlanded estateacresdemesneType of real property, real estateKinds plantation, barony, leasehold, homestead, Crown land, seigneury, hacienda, entail, fief, countryseat +4 more
- 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 rightsSynonyms: estate of the realmthe three estatesType of class, stratumKinds fourth estate, third estate, first estate, second estatePart of state, nation
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Translations
Noun area of land under single ownership
Noun property and liabilities, especially of a deceased person
- Spanish
- patrimonio
- French
- patrimoine
- Italian
- asse ereditario
- Portuguese
- espólio
- Russian
- насле́дство naslédstvo
- Arabic
- تَرِكَة tarika
- Japanese
- 遺産 isan
- Swedish
- dödsbo
- Greek
- περιουσία periousía
- Hungarian
- hagyaték
Noun social class, order (historical)
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. estat, F. état, L. status, fr. stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. State.
1. Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation. “When I came to man's estate.” William Shakespeare
Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.— Romans xii. 16.
2. Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.— Taylor, Jeremy
3. A person of high rank. obsolete
She's a duchess, a great estate.— Hugh Latimer
Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.— Mark vi. 21.
4. A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.
See what a vast estate he left his son.— John Dryden
5. The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs. obsolete
I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever... concerneth manifestly any great portion of people.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
6. pl. The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.
7. Law The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc. Benjamin Vaughan. Abbott
The fourth estate, a name often given to the public press.
1. To establish. obsolete Francis, & Fletcher, John. Beaumont
2. Tom settle as a fortune. archaic William Shakespeare
3. To endow with an estate. archaic
Then would I... Estate them with large land and territory.— Alfred Tennyson
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54