estate

English Online Dictionary. What means estate‎? What does estate mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English estat, from Anglo-Norman estat and Old French estat (French: état), from Latin status. Doublet of state and status.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ĭ-stāt, IPA^(key): /ɪˈsteɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

estate (plural estates)

1. The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. [from 19th c.]
2. (now rare, archaic) state; condition. [from 13th c.]
3. (archaic) Status, rank. [from 13th c.]
4. (archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions. [from 14th c.]
5. (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman. [14th–17th c.]
6. (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.]
7. (law) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land. [from 15th c.]
8. An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership. [from 18th c.]
9. The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
10. (UK, sometimes derogatory) A housing estate. [from 20th c.]
11. (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.]
12. (obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
13. (computing) An organization's collective information technology resources.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

estate (not comparable)

1. (jewelry, euphemistic) Previously owned; secondhand.

   an estate diamond; estate jewelry

Verb

estate (third-person singular simple present estates, present participle estating, simple past and past participle estated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To give an estate to.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To bestow upon.

See also

• Estate (land) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tea-set, eatest, testæ, testae, teaset, tea set, tatees

Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian.

Noun

estate (plural estates)

1. summer

See also

Italian

Alternative forms

• està (poetic or regional)
• state, istate (Tuscan)

Etymology

Latinizing modification of state, inherited from Latin aestātem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈsta.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: e‧stà‧te

Noun

estate f (plural estati)

1. summer

Related terms

• estivo

See also

Further reading

• estate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• attese, esatte, esteta, saette, tesate

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈtate/ [esˈt̪a.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: es‧ta‧te

Verb

estate

1. inflection of estar:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with te
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with te