estate /ɪˈsteɪt/noun 13verb 2adjective 1forms 3phrases 1 noun13 •a big piece of land that belongs to one owner, often with a large house on it •The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government. •The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. •An organization's collective information technology resources.This time, however, it only includes the static parameters that you expect to be consistent across your estate. — 2015 •(UK) A housing estate. •(UK) Ellipsis of estate car (“station wagon”). •The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land. •(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).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. — 1992 •(no longer used) Status, rank.God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men. — 1651 •(no longer used) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions.Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. — 1611 •(no longer used) state; condition.But when I came to mans estate, With hey ho, [the winde and the raine], Gainst Knaues and Theeues men shut their gate. — 1601 •(no longer used) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.I call matter of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever[…]concerneth manifestly any great portion of people. — 1612 •(no longer used) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman.Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee. — 1611 verb2 •(no longer used) To give an estate to. •(no longer used) To bestow upon. adjective1 •(euphemistic) Previously owned; secondhand. formsestated · estating · estates Phrases with estate fourth estateJournalism or journalists considered as a group; the press.
