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es·tate    Audio Help   [i-steyt] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -tat·ed, -tat·ing.
–noun
1.a piece of landed property, esp. one of large extent with an elaborate house on it: to have an estate in the country.
2.Law.
a.property or possessions.
b.the legal position or status of an owner, considered with respect to property owned in land or other things.
c.the degree or quantity of interest that a person has in land with respect to the nature of the right, its duration, or its relation to the rights of others.
d.interest, ownership, or property in land or other things.
e.the property of a deceased person, a bankrupt, etc., viewed as an aggregate.
3.British. a housing development.
4.a period or condition of life: to attain to man's estate.
5.a major political or social group or class, esp. one once having specific political powers, as the clergy, nobles, and commons in France or the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and commons in England.
6.condition or circumstances with reference to worldly prosperity, estimation, etc.; social status or rank.
7.Obsolete. pomp or state.
8.Obsolete. high social status or rank.
–verb (used with object)
9.Obsolete. to establish in or as in an estate.

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME estat < MF; c. Pr estat. See state]

1. See property.
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es·tate    Audio Help   (ĭ-stāt')  Pronunciation Key 
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  1. A landed property, usually of considerable size.
  2. The whole of one's possessions, especially all the property and debts left by one at death.
  3. Law The nature and extent of an owner's rights with respect to land or other property.
  4. Chiefly British A housing development.
  5. The situation or circumstances of one's life: A child's estate gives way to the adult's estate.
  6. Social position or rank, especially of high order.
  7. A major social class, such as the clergy, the nobility, or the commons, formerly possessing distinct political rights.
  8. Archaic Display of wealth or power; pomp.


[Middle English estat, condition, from Old French; see state.]

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estate 
c.1225, from Anglo-Fr. astat, O.Fr. estat, from L. status "state or condition," from root of stare "to stand" from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Oldest sense is of "rank, standing, condition;" sense of "property" is c.1385, from "worldly prosperity;" specific application to "landed property" (usually of large extent) is first recorded in Amer.Eng. 1623. A native word for this was M.E. ethel (O.E. æðel) "ancestral land or estate, patrimony." Meaning "collective assets of a dead person or debtor" is from 1830. The three estates (in Sweden and Aragon, four) conceived as orders in the body politic date from c.1380. In France, they are the clergy, nobles, and townsmen; in England, originally the clergy, barons, and commons, later Lords Spiritual, Lords Temporal, and commons. For Fourth Estate see four.

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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" 
3. 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 [syn: estate of the realm

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estate1 [iˈsteit] noun
a large piece of land owned by one person or a group of people etc
Example: They have an estate in Ireland.
Arabic: عَقار، قِطْعَة أرْض
Chinese (Simplified): 庄园
Chinese (Traditional): 莊園
Czech: pozemky, nemovitý majetek
Danish: gods; landsted; ejendom
Dutch: landgoed
Estonian: maaomand
Finnish: maatila
French: propriété
German: der Grundbesitz
Greek: κτηματική περιουσία
Hungarian: (föld)birtok
Icelandic: landareign
Indonesian: tanah milik
Italian: proprietà
Japanese: 地所
Korean: 토지
Latvian: muiža (ar zemi)
Lithuanian: žemės valda, dvaras
Norwegian: gods, plantasje
Polish: posiadłość
Portuguese (Brazil): propriedade
Portuguese (Portugal): propriedade
Romanian: proprietate
Russian: поместье
Slovak: pozemky
Slovenian: posestvo
Spanish: finca
Swedish: lantegendom, gods, ägor
Turkish: arazi, mülk
estate2 [iˈsteit] noun
a piece of land developed for building etc
Example: a housing/industrial estate
Arabic: قِطْعَة أرْض للعَمار
Chinese (Simplified): 房地产
Chinese (Traditional): 房地產
Czech: parcela; zástavba
Danish: boligkvarter; industriområde
Dutch: woonwijk, industrieterrein
Estonian: -rajoon
Finnish: alue
French: lotissement
German: die Siedlung
Greek: έκταση
Hungarian: (lakó-, gyár-, ipar)telep
Icelandic: byggingarsvæði
Indonesian: tanah
Italian: lotto
Japanese: 団地
Korean: 주택개발택지
Latvian: rūpnieciskais rajons
Lithuanian: rajonas
Norwegian: boligfelt, industriområde
Polish: teren
Portuguese (Brazil): loteamento
Portuguese (Portugal): lotes de construção, *bairro
Romanian: lot
Russian: участок застройки
Slovak: zástavba
Slovenian: zemljišče
Spanish: urbanización
Swedish: bostads-, industri]område
Turkish: site kompleksi
estate3 [iˈsteit] noun
a person's total possessions (property, money etc)
Example: His estate was divided among his sons.
Arabic: أمْلاك، عَقارات
Chinese (Simplified): 财产
Chinese (Traditional): 財產
Czech: majetek
Danish: bo; formue
Dutch: nalatenschap
Estonian: vara
Finnish: omaisuus
French: biens
German: der Besitz
Greek: περιουσία
Hungarian: vagyon
Icelandic: eignir; eftirlátnar eigur
Indonesian: tanah milik
Italian: beni*
Japanese: 財産
Korean: 재산
Latvian: īpašums
Lithuanian: turtas
Norwegian: (døds)bo, formue, midler
Polish: majątek, mienie
Portuguese (Brazil): bens
Portuguese (Portugal): bens
Romanian: avere
Russian: имущество
Slovak: majetok
Slovenian: posest
Spanish: bienes
Swedish: egendom, ägodelar, tillgångar
Turkish: para ve mal varlığı
See also: estate-car, estate agent

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Estate

Es*tate"\, n. [OF. estat, F. ['e]tat, L. status, fr. stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. State.]

1. Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation. "When I came to man's estate." --Shak.

Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. --Romans xii. 16.

2. Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.

God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men. --Jer. Taylor.

3. A person of high rank. [Obs.]

She's a duchess, a great estate. --Latimer.

Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee. --Mark vi. 21.

4. 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.

See what a vast estate he left his son. --Dryden.

5. The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs. [Obs.]

I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever . . . concerneth manifestly any great portion of people. --Bacon.

6. pl. 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.

7. (Law) 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. --Abbott.

The fourth estate, a name often given to the public press.
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Estate

Es*tate"\, v. t. 1. To establish. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.

2. Tom settle as a fortune. [Archaic] --Shak.

3. To endow with an estate. [Archaic]

Then would I . . . Estate them with large land and territory. --Tennyson.
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