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Meaning of 'estate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Estate [ n.]
- Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
- Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
- A person of high rank.
- 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.
- The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
- 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.
- 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.
2 . Estate [ v. t.]
- To establish.
- Tom settle as a fortune.
- To endow with an estate.

Meaning of 'estate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . estate [ n]
Meaning (1):
- extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
Example in sentence:
  • the family owned a large estate on Long Island

Nearby Words:

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