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Estate
ɪˈsteɪt
Estate definitions
noun
estate
estates
- an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization
- an area of land and modern buildings developed for residential, industrial, or commercial purposes
"Lucy and Tony live on an estate in West London"
- a property where coffee, rubber, grapes, or other crops are cultivated
"large coffee estates"
- all the money and property owned by a particular person, especially at death
"in his will, he divided his estate between his wife and daughter"
- a class or order regarded as forming part of the body politic, in particular (in Britain), one of the three groups constituting Parliament, now the Lords spiritual (the heads of the Church), the Lords temporal (the peerage), and the Commons. They are also known as the three estates
"the unions are no longer an estate of the realm"
- a particular class or category of people in society
"the spiritual welfare of all estates of men"
- a particular state, period, or condition in life
"programmes for the improvement of man's estate"