| 释义 |
estate /i- or e-stātˈ/ noun- Property, esp landed property of some size
- A piece of land built over either privately or by a local authority, with houses (housing estate) or factories (trading or industrial estate)
- Orig state (archaic)
- Rank
- Worldly condition
- Total possessions
- A piece of land given over to the cultivation of a particular crop
- An order or class of people in the body politic
- A chair or canopy of state, or a dais (obsolete)
- An estate car (see below)
transitive verb- To give an estate to (archaic)
- To bestow upon (archaic)
ORIGIN: OFr estat (Fr état), from L status a state estate agency noun estate agent noun - Someone who values, buys and sells, and leases and manages property for clients
- The manager of landed property
estateˈ-bottled adjective Of wine, bottled on the estate where it has been made estate car noun A car designed to carry passengers and goods, usu with a large area behind the seats for luggage, etc, and a rear door estate duty noun Death duty estatesˈman noun (N Eng) A small landholder man's estate The state of manhood personal estate see person real estate see real1 the estates of the realm - The three divisions of the body politic, Lords Spiritual, Lords Temporal and Commons
- Often misused for the legislature, ie king, lords and commons
- The ancient parliament of Scotland consisted of the king and the three estates, ie (1) archbishops, bishops, abbots and mitred priors, (2) the barons and the commissioners of shires and stewartries, (3) the commissioners from the royal burghs
- In France, the nobles, clergy and third estate (tiers état) remained separate down to 1780
the fourth estate (informal) The press |