English noun: estate |
1. | estate (possession) everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities |
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| Broader (hypernym) | belongings, holding, property |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | estate for life, gross estate, jointure, legal jointure, life estate, net estate |
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2. | estate (possession) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use |
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| Samples | The family owned a large estate on Long Island.
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| Synonyms | acres, demesne, land, landed estate |
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| Broader (hypernym) | immovable, real estate, real property, realty |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | barony, countryseat, Crown land, entail, feoff, fief, freehold, glebe, hacienda, homestead, leasehold, manor, plantation, seigneury, seigniory, signory, smallholding |
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3. | estate (group) a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights |
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| Synonyms | estate of the realm, the three estates |
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| Broader (hypernym) | class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Commons, first estate, fourth estate, Lords Spiritual, Lords Temporal, second estate, third estate |
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| Part meronym | body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| Domain region | Britain, France, French Republic, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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