26984 words

estate

12 definitions • 10 examples
1
a large area of land in the country that is owned by a family or an organization and is often used for growing crops or raising animals:

Examples:

country estate It's a typical country estate with a large house for the owner, farm buildings, and estate workers' houses.
2
everything that a person owns when they die :

Examples:

leave your estate to She left her entire estate to her niece.
3

Examples:

We grew up poor on an inner-city estate.
They moved into a four-bedroom house on a new estate.
4
a car with a lot of space behind the back seat and an extra door at the back for putting in large objects
5
a state of being:

Examples:

the holy estate of marriage
6
a large, privately owned area of land in the country, often with a large house
7
law A person’s estate is everything the person owns when he or she dies.
8
Br An estate is a group of houses or factories built in a planned way.
9
a group of houses or factories built in a planned way:

Examples:

commercial/industrial/trading estate He rents a unit on an industrial estate.
a housing estate
10
everything that a person owns when they die:

Examples:

leave your estate to sb She left her entire estate to her niece.
11
a group of small businesses such as pubs or shops, owned and controlled by one company:

Examples:

estate of sth The company, which has an estate of 650 pubs, was one of the first to open smoke-free sites.
12
a large area of land in the country which is owned by a family or an organization and is often used for growing crops or raising animals:

Examples:

It's a typical country estate with a large house for the owner, farm buildings and estate workers' houses.

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