estate

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman astat, from Old French estat (French: état).

Noun

estate (plural estates)

1. (now rare, archaic) state; condition [from 13th c.]
2. (archaic) status, rank [from 13th c.]
3. (archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions [from 14th c.]
4. (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman [14th-17th c.]
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVI:

     and anone cam oute of a chambir unto hym the fayryst lady that ever he saw, and more rycher beseyne than ever was Quene Guenyver or ony other astate.

5. (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 (w:Estates of the realm) [from 14th c.]
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 115:

     I am afraid that some of the nobles who are campaigning for it simply want to use the Estates to cut down the King's power and increase their own.

6. (law) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land [from 15th c.]
7. An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership [from 18th c.]
8. The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person [from 19th c.]
9. (UK) A housing estate [from 20th c.]
10. (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 20th c.]

Synonyms

• (estate car) estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagon

Derived terms

concurrent estate council estate estate agent estate for life estate in land estate sale estate tax fourth estate housing estate

industrial estate leasehold estate life estate overspill estate real estate residuary estate sink estate third estate trading estate

Translations

area on land under single ownership

Armenian: կալվածք (hy) (kalvaçk’) Bosnian: imanje (bs) n., posjed (bs) m. Bulgarian: имение (bg) n. Catalan: propietat (ca) f. Dutch: landgoed (nl) n. Finnish: tila (fi) French: domaine (fr), propriété (fr) German: Gut (de) n., Landgut (de) n. Italian: proprietà (it) f., tenuta (it) f., possedimento (it) m.

Latvian: muiža (lv) f. Lithuanian: sodyba (lt) f. Macedonian: посед (mk) (pósed) m., имот (mk) (ímot) m. Russian: усадьба (ru) (usád'ba) f. Scottish Gaelic: fearann na h-oighreachd (gd) m., oighreachd (gd) f. Simplified Chinese: 地产 Spanish: finca (es) f. Swedish: äga (sv) c., egendom (sv) c.

(historical) a major social class or order of persons

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Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: stånd (sv) n.

(law) nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land

Bosnian: vlasništvo (bs) n. Bulgarian: владение (bg) n.

Finnish: saanto (fi) Italian: beni (it) m. pl.

all that a person owns

Bosnian: imovina (bs) f. Bulgarian: имот (bg) m. Catalan: propietat (ca) f., béns (ca) m. pl. Dutch: bezit (nl) n.

Finnish: omaisuus (fi) Macedonian: имот (mk) (ímot) m. Simplified Chinese: 财产

property of a deceased person

Bosnian: imetak (bs) m. Bulgarian: наследство (bg) n. Catalan: propietat (ca) f. Finnish: kuolinpesä (fi), pesä (fi)

Italian: asse ereditario (it) Macedonian: заоставштина (mk) (zaostávština) f. Scottish Gaelic: oighreachd (gd) f. Swedish: dödsbo (sv) n., sterbhus (sv) n.

group of buildings built together as a single development on a designated area of land

Finnish: rakennuskohde (fi) Irish: eastát títhíochta

Italian: immobili (it) m. pl. Macedonian: комплекс (mk) (kompléks) m.

body style of cars

Finnish: farmari (fi) (style), farmariauto (fi) (car) Italian: familiare (it) f., giardinetta (it) f.

Macedonian: караван (mk) (karaván) m. Swedish: herrgårdsvagn (sv) c.

major social class

Bosnian: stalež (bs) m. Bulgarian: съсловие (bg) n.

Finnish: sääty (fi) Macedonian: сталеж (mk) (stálež) m.

See also

• Estate (house) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Estate (house)

Anagrams

• eatest, tea set

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Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian.

Noun

estate (plural estates)

1. summer

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin aestatis, genitive of aestas

Noun

estate f. (plural estati)

1. summer

Related terms

• estivo

See also

• (seasons) stagione; primavera, estate, autunno, inverno ^{(Category: it:Seasons) [edit]}

Anagrams

• attese, esatte, esteta, saette, tesate

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Novial

Noun

estate

1. estate

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Spanish

Verb

estate (infinitive estar)

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of estar, está and the pronoun te.