ESTATE
estate, land, landed estate, acres, demesne
(noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; “the family owned a large estate on Long Island”
estate
(noun) everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
estate (plural estates)
The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. [from 19thc.]
(now rare, archaic) state; condition. [from 13thc.]
(archaic) Status, rank. [from 13thc.]
(archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions. [from 14thc.]
(obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman. [14th-17thc.]
(historical) A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights (Estates of the realm). [from 14thc.]
(legal) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land. [from 15thc.]
An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership. [from 18thc.]
The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
(UK, sometimes pejorative) A housing estate. [from 20thc.]
(UK, automotive) A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating). [from 20thc.]
(obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
Synonyms
• (estate car) estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagon
Adjective
estate (not comparable)
(jewelry, euphemism) Previously owned; secondhand.
Verb
estate (third-person singular simple present estates, present participle estating, simple past and past participle estated)
(obsolete, transitive) To give an estate to.
(obsolete, transitive) To bestow upon.
Anagrams
• eatest, tatees, tea set, testae, testæ
Source: Wiktionary
Es*tate", n. Etym: [OF. estat, F. Ă©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.
Definition: 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)
Definition: 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.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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