Britishan area where there are many houses, usually built at the same time by the same company. Many estates are owned by local government and have cheap houses for poorer families. The American word is development
He grew up on an estate.
Synonyms and related words
Areas in towns or cities
agora
area
armpit
1a
Britishan industrial estate or trading estate
Synonyms and related words
Areas in towns or cities
agora
area
armpit
1b
a large area of land where a particular crop is grown
Synonyms and related words
General words for farming, and types of farming
agrarian
agribusiness
agricultural
Synonyms and related words
Crop farming
arable
broadacre
cash crop
1c
a very large area of land that belongs to one person, usually with a very big house on it
She has a team of six people who manage the estate.
Synonyms and related words
Areas around buildings
alley
alleyway
arcade
2
usually singularall the property and money that belongs to someone, especially someone who has just died
Synonyms and related words
Real estate
bricks and mortar
devise
estate
Synonyms and related words
Inheritance, inheriting and heritage
an accident of birth
be descended from
beneficiary
3
Britisha long car with an extra door at the back and a lot of space behind the back seats
Synonyms and related words
Types of car
a good runner
automatic
cabriolet
4
an old word for each of the three groups of people involved in governing a country: the nobility, the clergy, and ordinary people
Synonyms and related words
Systems of government and types of government
absolutism
anarchy
associative democracy
See alsofourth estate
5
an old word meaning the situation or state that someone is in
the holy estate of matrimony
Synonyms and related words
General words for situations and circumstances
situation
circumstance
conditions
estate
noun countable
US /ɪˈsteɪt/
Other entries for this word
estate taxnoun
real estatenoun
estate agentnoun
fourth estatenoun
ghost estatenoun
council estatenoun
industrial estatenoun
trading estatenoun
real estate agentnoun
settle someone’s estatephrase
real estate agencynoun at real estate agentnoun
real estate agencynoun
realestate at real property
Word Forms
singular
estate
plural
estates
DEFINITIONS5
of dead person
area of buildings
rulers of country
situation or state
station wagon
1
usually singularall the property and money that belongs to someone, especially someone who has just died
Martin was the sole heir to his father’s estate.
Synonyms and related words
Real estate
devise
estate
estate agent
Synonyms and related words
Inheritance, inheriting and heritage
an accident of birth
be descended from
beneficiary
2
a large area of land where a particular crop is grown
tea/coffee/wineestates
Synonyms and related words
General words for farming, and types of farming
agrarian
agribusiness
agricultural
Synonyms and related words
Crop farming
arable
cash crop
combine
2a
a very large area of land that belongs to one person, usually with a very big house on it
She has a team of six people who manage the estate.
Synonyms and related words
Areas around buildings
alley
alleyway
arcade
2b
Britisha development of houses
He grew up on an estate.
Synonyms and related words
Areas in towns or cities
agora
area
armpit
3
an old word for each of the three groups of people involved in governing a country: the nobility, the clergy, and ordinary people
the view that the monarch was not one of the three estates
Synonyms and related words
Systems of government and types of government
absolutism
anarchy
associative democracy
See alsofourth estate
4
an old word meaning the situation or state that someone is in