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noun
1.
a piece of landed property, especially 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.
EXPANDa major political or social group or class, especially 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.
COLLAPSEObsolete. high social status or rank.
verb (used with object)
9.
Obsolete. to establish in or as in an estate.
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Word Origin & History
estate
early 13c., 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 late 14c., from "worldly prosperity;" specific
EXPANDapplication to "landed property" (usually of large extent) is first recorded in Amer.Eng. 1620s. 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 late 14c. 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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