estate

Meaning

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.

landed estate

estate of the realm

the three estates

zamin

landed property

hoarded wealth

industrial park

king’s ransom

land-tenure

country-seat

landed revenues

apartment complex

land and building

Real Property

housing and land

decedents’estates

estate wine

factory complex

possesions

plot of land

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪˈsteɪt/

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

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Glengarry's estate was much mortgaged and encumbered .

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