estate
n.
extensive piece of land usually with a large house on it; person's property, wealth, possessions; status, social standing, rank
Estate
estate
Noun
1. everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
(hypernym) property, belongings, holding, material possession
(hyponym) gross estate
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"
(synonym) land, landed estate, acres, demesne
(hypernym) real property, real estate, realty
(hyponym) freehold
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
(synonym) estate of the realm
(hypernym) class, social class, socio-economic class
(hyponym) press, fourth estate
(part-holonym) state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic
estate (f)
n.
summer, summertime
Estate
(v. t.)
Tom settle as a fortune.
(v. t.)
To establish.
(v. t.)
To endow with an estate.
(n.)
The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
(n.)
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.
(n.)
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.
(n.)
Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
(n.)
Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
(n.)
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.
(n.)
A person of high rank.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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