Dictionary Definition
estate
Noun
1 everything you own; all of your assets (whether
real property or personal property) and liabilities
2 extensive landed property (especially in the
country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a
large estate on Long Island" [syn: land, landed
estate, acres,
demesne]
3 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 [syn: estate
of the realm]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪt
Noun
- An area on land under single ownership. (Estate (house))
- The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land.
- All that a person owns, whether real or personal property.
- The property of a deceased person.
- A group of buildings built together as a single development on a designated area of land. (Housing estate)
- In the context of "UK|automotive": A body style for cars, popular with families, which has an enclosed area where the boot or trunk would be on a sedan / saloon.
- An estate car.
- 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)
Synonyms
- italbrac estate car estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagon
Derived terms
- concurrent estate
- estate for life
- estate in land
- estate sale
- housing estate
- industrial estate
- leasehold estate
- life estate
- real estate
- trading estate
Translations
area on land under single ownership
- Finnish: tila
- Spanish: finca
law: nature and extent of a person's interest
in, or ownership of, land
- Finnish: saanto
all that a person owns
- Finnish: omaisuus
property of a deceased person
- Finnish: kuolinpesä, pesä
group of buildings built together as a single
development on a designated area of land
- Finnish: rakennuskohde
body style of cars
- Finnish: farmari
estate car
- Finnish: farmariauto
major social class
- Finnish: sääty
Italian
Etymology
Latin aestas, aestatisNoun
Related terms
See also
Extensive Definition
Estate may refer to:
- Estate (law), a term used in common law to signify the total of a person's property, entitlements and obligations
- Estate (social), a broad social category in the histories of certain countries
- Immovable property, real estate or real property
- Estate (house) may mean the grounds surrounding any very large property, such as a country house or mansion
- Types of built-up area:
- A housing estate - this is mostly UK usage.
- A trading estate or industrial estate. This is mostly UK usage.
- Station wagon, "Estate car", in British English a car body style
- States-General, may refer to one or more parliaments
- Estate (band), a former Austrian post-hardcore band
Incidentally Estate means summer in Italian.
estate in Japanese: エステート
estate in Simple English: Estate
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Everyman, John Doe, Public, absolute interest,
acres, assets, bearings, belongings, benefit, blood, body politic, bracket, branch, capital, case, caste, category, chattels, circumstance, citizenry, claim, clan, class, common, common man, commonwealth, community, community at large,
condition, contingent
interest, demesne,
development,
division, domain, easement, equitable interest,
equity, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, farm, farmstead, fix, folk, folks, footing, form, fortune, general public,
gentry, grade, grange, group, grouping, hacienda, head, heading, holding, holdings, home place, homecroft, homestead, house and grounds,
house and lot, interest, jam, kin, label, land, level, limitation, location, lot, manor, mansion, men, messuage, modality, mode, nation, nationality, order, part, pass, people, people in general,
percentage, persons, pickle, pigeonhole, place, plantation, plight, polity, populace, population, position, possessions, posture, predicament, property, public, race, ranch, rancho, rank, rating, repair, resources, right, right of entry, rubric, section, sept, set, settlement, shape, situation, society, spot, stake, standing, state, station, status, steading, strain, stratum, strict settlement,
subdivision,
subgroup, suborder, title, toft, trust, use, vested interest, villa, wealth, world, you and
me