Other forms: estates
An estate is a large piece of land with buildings on it, owned as one thing. A country house and everything round it.
British English has three main senses. The country estate is the traditional one. A housing estate is a group of houses built together, usually all at once, and a council estate is one built by a local authority. And in law, somebody's estate is everything they owned at death, which is what an executor administers. An estate agent sells property, and an estate car is a long one with a big boot.
1nounestateA large area of land with houses or a country house on it.~73%
“They grew up on an estate outside the town.”
2nouneverythingEverything a person owns, especially at death.~27%
“The estate was divided between the three children.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 22 sentences found in the wild and placed 15 of them on a sense (7 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Proto-Indo-European
*steh₂-
Latin
status
Old French
estat
Anglo-Norman
estat
Middle English
estat
English, today
estate
From Middle English estat, from Anglo-Norman estat and Old French estat (French: état), from Latin status. a doublet of state and status.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA