Estate

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  • noun. A landed property, usually of considerable size.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. One's property, both real and personal, vested and contingent, especially as disposed of in a will.
  • noun. The nature and extent of an owner's rights with respect to land or other property.
  • noun. A housing development.
  • noun. The situation or circumstances of one's life.
  • noun. Social position or rank, especially of high order.
  • noun. A major social class, such as the clergy, the nobility, or the commons, formerly possessing distinct political rights.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To establish in possession; settle.
  • To settle as a possession; bestow; deed.
  • To settle an estate upon; endow with an estate or other property.
  • noun. A fixed or established condition; a special form of existence; state.
  • noun. Condition or circumstances of a person or thing; situation; especially, the state of a person as regards external circumstances.
  • noun. Rank; quality; status.
  • noun. Style of living: usually with a distinctive opithet, high, great, etc., implying pomp or dignity.
  • noun. In law: The legal position or status of an owner, considered with respect to his property; ownership, tenancy, or tenure; property in land or other things.
  • noun. More technically, and with relation only to land, the degree or quantity of interest, considered in respect to the nature of the right, its period of duration, or its relation to the rights of others, which a person has in land.
  • noun. Property in general; possessions; particularly, the property left at a man's death: as, at his death his estate was of the value of half a million; the trustees proceeded to realize the estate.
  • noun. A piece of landed property; a definite portion of land in the ownership of some one: as, there is more wood on his estate than on mine.
  • noun. The body politic; state; commonwealth; public; public interest.
  • noun. One of the orders or classes into which the population of some countries is or has been divided, with respect to political rights and powers.
  • noun. A person of high station or rank; a noble.
  • noun. A name humorously given in recent times to the newspaper press, or the body of journalists, as constituting a power in the state distinct from that of the three recognized political orders.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To establish.
  • transitive verb. Tom settle as a fortune.
  • transitive verb. To endow with an estate.
  • noun. Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
  • noun. Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
  • noun. A person of high rank.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.
  • noun. a name often given to the public press.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
  • noun. 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
  • noun. extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
  • Word Usage
    "Real estate, the title to which is conveyed by deed, as distinguished from other estates in land, is called an _estate of inheritance_."
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