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Definitions for: Estate
[n] a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights
[n] extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
[n] everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
Webster (1913) Definition: Es*tate", n. [OF. estat, F. ['e]tat, L. status, fr.
stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. State.]
1. Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition
or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
``When I came to man's estate.'' --Shak.
Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low
estate. --Romans xii.
16.
2. Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
God hath imprinted his authority in several parts,
upon several estates of men. --Jer. Taylor.
3. A person of high rank. [Obs.]
She's a duchess, a great estate. --Latimer.
Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords,
high captains, and chief estates of Galilee. --Mark
vi. 21.
4. 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.
See what a vast estate he left his son. --Dryden.
5. The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth;
the general interest; state affairs. [Obs.]
I call matters of estate not only the parts of
sovereignty, but whatsoever . . . concerneth
manifestly any great portion of people. --Bacon.
6. pl. 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.
7. (Law) 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. --Abbott.
The fourth estate, a name often given to the public press.
Es*tate", v. t.
1. To establish. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
2. Tom settle as a fortune. [Archaic] --Shak.
3. To endow with an estate. [Archaic]
Then would I . . . Estate them with large land and
territory. --Tennyson.
Synonyms: acres, demesne, estate of the realm, land, landed estate
See Also: barony, belongings, body politic, class, commonwealth, country, countryseat, Crown land, entail, estate for life, feoff, fief, fourth estate, freehold, glebe, gross estate, hacienda, holding, homestead, jointure, land, leasehold, legal jointure, life estate, manor, material possession, nation, net estate, plantation, press, property, real estate, real property, realty, res publica, seigneury, seigniory, signory, smallholding, social class, socio-economic class, state
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