estatenoun
uk/ɪˈsteɪt/us/ɪˈsteɪt/estate noun (PROPERTY)
B2 [ C ] a large area of land in the country that is owned by a family or an organization and is often used for growing crops or raising animals:
[ C ] specialized law everything that a person owns when they die :
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- The estate for sale includes two miles of river frontage.
- What acreage is her estate ?
- With the income from the family estate, she's in clover.
- The wood lies on the southern extremity of the estate.
- She will inherit her father's estate when she reaches her majority.
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Farms & ranches
- collective farm
- croft
- dairy farm
- farm
- farmhouse
- farmland
- farmstead
- fish farm
- grange
- nursery
- plantation
- ranch
- sheep station
- smallholding
- spread
- station
- tea garden
- truck farm
- vertical farm
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estate noun (BUILDINGS)
B2 [ C ] UK a group of houses or factories built in a planned way:
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- She was brought up in a council estate in Liverpool.
- Police are blaming arsonists for the spate of fires in the Greenfields housing estate.
- They have a four-bedroom house on a newish estate.
- They live on a great concrete warren of a housing estate.
- The estate contains 300 new homes, about a third of which are leased to the council.
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Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities
- arrondissement
- backstreets
- barrio
- block
- botanic garden
- concrete jungle
- council estate
- dormitory suburb
- exurb
- ghetto
- housing estate
- inner city
- precinct
- red-light district
- slum
- Speakers' Corner
- suburbia
- the outskirts
- town
- trading estate
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estate noun (CAR)
[ C ] UK also estate car, US station wagon a car with a lot of space behind the back seat and an extra door at the back for putting in large objects
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Cars
- 4×4
- all-wheel drive
- artic
- Beemer
- beetle
- buggy
- carpool
- compact
- gas guzzler
- hatchback
- jalopy
- Jeep
- Land Rover
- limousine
- minicab
- MPV
- Rolls-Royce
- saloon
- stock car
- taxi
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estate noun (STATE)
[ U ] old use a state of being:
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Existing and being
- account for sth
- alive
- am
- are
- be
- come
- existent
- extant
- go
- go back
- have legs idiom
- hood
- languish
- lie
- lie in sth
- live
- lurk
- run
- stalk
- was
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