Dictionary entry details
• ESTATE (noun)
Meaning:
Everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("estate" is a kind of...):
belongings; holding; material possession; property (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estate"):
gross estate (the total valuation of the estate's assets at the time of the person's death)
net estate (the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate; the estate then left to be distributed (and subject to federal and state inheritance taxes))
estate for life; life estate ((law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it)
jointure; legal jointure ((law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower)
Meaning:
Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
acres; demesne; landed estate; estate; land
Context example:
the family owned a large estate on Long Island
Hypernyms ("estate" is a kind of...):
immovable; real estate; real property; realty (property consisting of houses and land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estate"):
entail (land received by fee tail)
plantation (an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas))
hacienda (a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries)
seigneury; seigniory; signory (the estate of a seigneur)
manor (the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it))
Crown land (land that belongs to the Crown)
countryseat (an estate in the country)
barony (the estate of a baron)
freehold (an estate held in fee simple or for life)
glebe (plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office)
leasehold (land or property held under a lease)
smallholding (a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation)
homestead (land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law)
feoff; fief (a piece of land held under the feudal system)
Meaning:
A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
estate of the realm; estate
Hypernyms ("estate" is a kind of...):
class; social class; socio-economic class (people having the same social or economic status)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estate"):
fourth estate; press (newspaper writers and photographers)
Holonyms ("estate" is a part of...):
body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)
