estate

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PronunciationEdit

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

EtymologyEdit

From Anglo-Norman astat, from Old French estat (French: état).

NounEdit

estate (plural estates)

1. (now rare, archaic) state; condition [from 13th c.]
   • Shakespeare

     when I came to man's estate

   • Bible, Romans xii. 16

     Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.

2. (archaic) status, rank [from 13th c.]
   • Jeremy Taylor

     God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.

3. (archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions [from 14th c.]
4. (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman [14th-17th c.]
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVI:

     and anone cam oute of a chambir unto hym the fayryst lady that ever he saw, and more rycher beseyne than ever was Quene Guenyver or ony other astate.

   • Landor

     She's a duchess, a great estate.

   • Bible, Mark vi. 21

     Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.

5. (historical) 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 (Estates of the realm) [from 14th c.]
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 115:

     I am afraid that some of the nobles who are campaigning for it simply want to use the Estates to cut down the King's power and increase their own.

   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 202:

     The three estates of feudal lords, clergy and royal officers met in separate chambers, and exercised an advisory role.

6. (law) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land [from 15th c.]
7. An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership [from 18th c.]
8. The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person [from 19th c.]
9. (UK) A housing estate [from 20th c.]
10. (UK, automotive) A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating) [from 20th c.]
11. (obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
    • Francis Bacon

      I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever […] concerneth manifestly any great portion of people.

SynonymsEdit

• (estate car) estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagon

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TranslationsEdit

See alsoEdit

• Estate (house) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Estate (house)

AnagramsEdit

• eatest, tea set

EtymologyEdit

From Italian.

NounEdit

estate (plural estates)

1. summer

EtymologyEdit

From Latin aestātem, accusative of aestās.

NounEdit

estate f (plural estati)

1. summer

Related termsEdit

• estivo

See alsoEdit

• (seasons) stagione; primavera, estate, autunno, inverno ^{(Category: it:Seasons)}

AnagramsEdit

• attese, esatte, esteta, saette, tesate

NounEdit

estate (plural estates)

1. estate

VerbEdit

estate

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of estar, está and the pronoun te.