estate

Meaning

Noun

1. The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.
2. state; condition.
3. Status, rank.
4. The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions.
5. (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman.
6. A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights (Estates of the realm).
7. The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land.
8. An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership.
9. The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
10. A housing estate.
11. A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating).
12. (obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
13. An organization's collective information technology resources.

Adj

Previously owned; secondhand.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To give an estate to.
2. (obsolete) To bestow upon.

Concepts

estate

property

farm

ranch

land

manor

capital

inheritance

ownership

demesne

domain

belongings

fortune

wealth

possessions

state

possession

realty

holding

assets

patrimony

condition

legacy

plantation

real estate

status

farmstead

landed property

standing

hacienda

asset

riches

treasure

bequest

heritage

territory

class

estate of the realm

the three estates

acres

landed estate

lot

zamin

substance

industrial

branch

compartment

department

division

pigeonhole

section

specialization

square

ward

cash

collection

fund

proprietorship

grounds

case

position

plot of land

lodge

manor house

yard

barony

belonging

country-seat

land-tenure

landed revenues

landowning

means

circumstance

industrial park

country

homeland

kingdom

place

realm

degree

premises

being

subsistence

industry

Real Property

housing and land

land and building

decedents’estates

estate wine

claim

dominions

parcel

plot

site

country house

farmyard

mansion

seigniory

effects

hoarded wealth

king’s ransom

bay

mode

room

seigneury

space

stead

well

facility

fief

goods

homestead

worth

apartment complex

factory complex

possesions

settlement

casa

house

household

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪˈsteɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English estat, from Anglo-Norman estat and Old French estat (French: état), from Latin status. Doublet of state and status.