Estate
[ɪ'steɪt;e-] or [ɪ'stet]
Definition
(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'.
(noun.) everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities.
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Definition
(n.) Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
(n.) Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
(n.) A person of high rank.
(n.) A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.
(n.) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
(n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.
(n.) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.
(v. t.) To establish.
(v. t.) Tom settle as a fortune.
(v. t.) To endow with an estate.
Typist: Merritt
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. State, condition, position, rank.[2]. Property, effects, possessions, fortune.[3]. Class (of those who constitute the state or the government of a state), order, division.[4]. (Law.) Interest (in any species of permanent property).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Lands, fortune, property, possessions, demesne, order, rank, condition,freehold, domain
ANT:State, community, country, waste, chattels, goods, effects
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Definition
n. condition or rank: position: property esp. landed property: fortune: an order or class of men in the body-politic: (pl.) dominions: possessions.—v.t. to give an estate to: (arch.) to bestow upon.—n. Estates′man statesman.—Man's estate the state of manhood; The estates of the realm are three—Lords Spiritual Lords Temporal and Commons; but often misused for the legislature—king lords and commons.—The ancient parliament of Scotland consisted of the king and the Three Estates—viz.: (1) archbishops bishops abbots and mitred priors; (2) the barons and the commissioners of shires and stewartries; (3) the commissioners from the royal burghs;—in France the nobles clergy and Third Estate (tiers é– at) remained separate down to 1789; The fourth estate often used humorously for the press.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you come into the ownership of a vast estate, denotes that you will receive a legacy at some distant day, but quite different to your expectations. For a young woman, this dream portends that her inheritance will be of a disappointing nature. She will have to live quite frugally, as her inheritance will be a poor man and a house full of children.
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Examples
- Is the estate going to seed? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Contents of chapter, “His birth and estate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then I was compelled to change my plans and go upward in the air where real estate was cheap. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The heralds of this gospel were acutely conscious of the evils of the social estate in which they found themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He stood on the hearth of Aufidius's hall, facing the image of greatness fallen, but greater than ever in that low estate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Nothing could be more natural and proper than for my Professor to open a school, and for me to prefer to reside in my own estate. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Fred, as the eldest twin, will have the estate, I suppose, and such a splendid one it is! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It is my private estate, and, as I have always kept friends with the Sublime Porte, there is no chance of it being taken from me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- For the Third Estate the franchise was very wide, nearly every tax-payer of twenty-five having a vote. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He married Miss Griswold of Poughkeepsie, and bought an estate of two hundred acres near that city. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The more pretentious and better furnished home of the superintendent of the estate, together with the storehouses, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Its opening deliberations turned on the question whether it was to meet as one body or as three, each estate having an equal vote. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The rent of a very moderate landed estate might be fully sufficient for defraying all the other necessary expenses of government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For your sake, turning to Charlotte, I am glad of it; but otherwise I see no occasion for entailing estates from the female line. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Of the two sons, the eldest, Arthur, inherited the title and estates. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But there are not great estates that must be broken up? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The question whether the voting was to be by the estates or by head was clearly a vital one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Many of their dominions were less both in size and value than the larger estates of the British nobility. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such estates go all to one person, and are in effect entailed and unalienable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She was a manufacturer--she made fine linen and sold it; she was an agriculturist--she bought estates and planted vineyards. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We prospered, we traveled, we came back as rich colonials to England, and we bought country estates. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- They necessarily became the judges in peace, and the leaders in war, of all who dwelt upon their estates. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In his view he should himself have been heir of all my estates, and he deeply resented those social laws which made it impossible. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They farm, the greater part of them, their own estates: and accordingly we seldom hear of the rent of a plantation, but frequently of its profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I shall confer estates on both--which is not being troublesome, I trust? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There was a certain amount of small scale landlordism, but no great estates. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then I shall release my birds, you know, and confer estates. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Old Lord Ingram's estates were chiefly entailed, and the eldest son came in for everything almost. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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