housing estate

English

Noun

housing estate (plural housing estates)

1. A group of often architecturally similar buildings constructed at the same time. Primarily for residential accommodation, estates may also include commercial facilities.
   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     She suggested he was destroying all Sarkozy had achieved in proving that a traditional, Catholic, rightwing area could vote for an ethnic-minority candidate such as her, from a poor housing estate in the provinces, the Muslim child of illiterate north African parents. She vowed to "resist" Fillon.

   • 2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[2]:

     Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.

Derived terms

• council estate
• sink estate

Translations

group of buildings

• Catalan: urbanització f
• Czech: sídliště (cs) n
• Dutch: woonwijk (nl)
• Finnish: aluerakennuskohde
• French: lotissement (fr) m
• Hungarian: lakótelep (hu)
• Irish: eastát m, eastát tithíochta m
• Macedonian: компле́кс m (kompléks)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: boligfelt n

  Nynorsk: bustadfelt n

• Rusyn: сідлі́ско n (sidlísko)
• Scottish Gaelic: ionad-thaighean m
• Slovak: sídlisko n
• Spanish: gran conjunto m, ensemble m, urbanización (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} immobili m pl
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See also

• industrial estate