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es⋅tate

  [i-steyt] noun, verb, -tat⋅ed, -tat⋅ing.
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–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

Synonyms:
1. See property.
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es·tate   (ĭ-stāt')   
n.  
  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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