estates

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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:

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

everything that a person owns when they die :

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

a group of buildings, usually homes, built in a planned way:

We grew up poor on an inner-city estate.

They moved into a four-bedroom house on a new estate.

a car with a lot of space behind the back seat and an extra door at the back for putting in large objects

a state of being:

the holy estate of marriage

a large, privately owned area of land in the country, often with a large house

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.

a group of houses or factories built in a planned way:

commercial/industrial/trading estate He rents a unit on an industrial estate.

a housing estate

everything that a person owns when they die:

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

a group of small businesses such as pubs or shops, owned and controlled by one company:

estate of sth The company, which has an estate of 650 pubs, was one of the first to open smoke-free sites.

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:

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