Real estate is land and the buildings on it, considered as property to buy and sell. The American term for what Britain calls property.
The real here has nothing to do with truth and comes from an old sense meaning relating to things rather than to persons, which is also where the legal distinction between real and personal property comes from. American agents are realtors. The phrase has a figurative use about space, since valuable screen real estate means the part of a display everybody looks at.
1nounreal estateLand and buildings considered as property.
“He made his money in commercial real estate.”
Estate that is real, in the legal sense of "relating to immovable tangible property". This sense of the word ultimately goes back to Latin, where reālis could be used similarly.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 2 of A Man Called Ove.
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