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   Es·tate

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   noun

   • 1. an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization.
   • ▪ a housing or commercial development: British "Lucy and Tony live on an estate in West London" Similar areasitedevelopmentcomplexpiece of landlandregiontract
   • ▪ a property where coffee, rubber, grapes, or other crops are cultivated: "large coffee estates" Similar plantationfarmholdingforestvineyardranchhaciendapenshambatope
   • 2. all the money and property owned by a particular person, especially at death: "in his will, he divided his estate between his wife and daughter" Similar assetscapitalwealthrichesholdingsfortunepropertyworthresourceseffectspossessionsbelongingsthingsgoodsworldly goodsstuffchattelsvaluableslegacybequestpersonaltygoods and chattelsinformal:geartrek
   • 3. a class or order regarded as forming part of the body politic, in particular (in Britain), one of the three groups constituting Parliament, now the Lords spiritual (the heads of the Church), the Lords temporal (the peerage), and the Commons. They are also known as the three estates: "the unions are no longer an estate of the realm"
   • ▪ a particular class or category of people in society: dated "the spiritual welfare of all estates of men"
   • 4. a particular state, period, or condition in life: archaic, literary "programs for the improvement of man's estate" Similar stateconditionsituationpositioncircumstancelotfate

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘state or condition’): from Old French estat, from Latin status ‘state, condition’, from stare ‘to stand’.

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   What does estate mean after a person dies?

   • While an estate refers mostly to land and a house on it, it can also refer to all of a person’s possessions — and this sense of the word is often used after someone has died to refer to everything they are leaving behind. “You are set to inherit half of your grandfather’s estate, which includes his entire collection of stuffed raccoons.”

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   What is an estate in English?

   • Br An estate is a group of houses or factories built in a planned way. commercial/industrial/trading estate He rents a unit on an industrial estate. leave your estate to sb She left her entire estate to her niece. estate of sth The company, which has an estate of 650 pubs, was one of the first to open smoke-free sites.

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   What is a person's estate?

   • law A person’s estate is everything the person owns when he or she dies. Br An estate is a group of houses or factories built in a planned way. commercial/industrial/trading estate He rents a unit on an industrial estate. leave your estate to sb She left her entire estate to her niece.

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   What is a deceased person's estate?

   • : the estate of a person upon death defined by federal estate laws to include all of the deceased's real and personal property at death that may be passed by will or by intestate succession as well as specified property transferred by the deceased before death

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   Definitions of estate. 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”. synonyms: acres, demesne, land, landed estate. see more.

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    4 days ago · 1. countable noun. An estate is a large area of land in the country which is owned by a person, family, or organization . ...a shooting party on Lord Wyville's estate in Yorkshire. Synonyms: lands, property, area, grounds More Synonyms of estate. 2. countable noun. People sometimes use estate to refer to a housing estate or an industrial estate.