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ESTATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights
Synonyms:
estate; estate of the realm; the three estates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("estate" is a kind of...):
class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estate"):
first estate; Lords Spiritual (the clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain)
Lords Temporal; second estate (the nobility in France and the peerage in Britain)
Commons; third estate (the common people)
fourth estate (the press, including journalists, newspaper writers, photographers)
Holonyms ("estate" is a part of...):
body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
Example:
the family owned a large estate on Long Island
Synonyms:
acres; demesne; estate; land; landed estate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("estate" is a kind of...):
immovable; real estate; real property; realty (property consisting of houses and land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estate"):
entail (land received by fee tail)
plantation (an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas))
hacienda (a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries)
seigneury; seigniory; signory (the estate of a seigneur)
manor (the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it))
Crown land (land that belongs to the Crown)
countryseat (an estate in the country)
barony (the estate of a baron)
feoff; fief (a piece of land held under the feudal system)
homestead (land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law)
smallholding (a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation)
leasehold (land or property held under a lease)
glebe (plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office)
freehold (an estate held in fee simple or for life)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("estate" is a kind of...):
belongings; holding; property (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estate"):
gross estate (the total valuation of the estate's assets at the time of the person's death)
net estate (the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate; the estate then left to be distributed (and subject to federal and state inheritance taxes))
estate for life; life estate ((law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it)
jointure; legal jointure ((law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower)
Context examples:
A thick atmosphere could also help redistribute heat to the dark sides of these tidally locked planets, increasing habitable real estate.
(TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System, NASA/JPL)
A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The estates went, as you may remember, in the male line.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In his view he should himself have been heir of all my estates, and he deeply resented those social laws which made it impossible.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Can anything be more galling to the spirit of a man, continued John, than to see his younger brother in possession of an estate which might have been his own?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The consequence of it is, that Lady Lucas will have a daughter married before I have, and that the Longbourn estate is just as much entailed as ever.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It will be a bright day for Sir Lothian Hume when they can prove him dead, for he is next of kin, and till then he can touch neither title nor estate.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I did not thoroughly understand what you were telling your brother, cried Emma, about your friend Mr. Graham's intending to have a bailiff from Scotland, to look after his new estate.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Ceres, with an average diameter of 950 kilometers, is the largest body in the asteroid belt, the strip of solar system real estate between Mars and Jupiter.
(Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres, NASA)
The instant that he could set foot to ground Alleyne had started in search of his lord, but no word could he hear of him, dead or alive, and he had come home now sad-hearted, in the hope of raising money upon his estates and so starting upon his quest once more.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
