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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   estate

   • IPA[əˈstāt]

   美式

   • n.
     an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization.；a housing or commercial development

   • noun: estate, plural noun: estates

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization.
   • ▪ British a housing or commercial development Lucy and Tony live on an estate in West London a housing estate 同義詞 area, site, development, complex, piece of land, ... 更多land, region, tract
   • ▪ a property where coffee, rubber, grapes, or other crops are cultivated large coffee estates L'Ormarin's wine estate 同義詞 plantation, farm, holding, forest, vineyard, ... 更多ranch, hacienda, pen, shamba, tope
   • 2. all the money and property owned by a particular person, especially at death in his will, he divided his estate between his wife and daughter 同義詞 assets, capital, wealth, riches, holdings, ... 更多fortune, property, worth, resources, effects, possessions, belongings, things, goods, worldly goods, stuff, chattels, valuables, legacy, bequest, personalty, goods and chattels, informalgear, trek
   • 3. a class or order regarded as forming part of the body politic, in particular (in Britain), one of the three groups constituting Parliament, now the Lords spiritual (the heads of the Church), the Lords temporal (the peerage), and the Commons. They are also known as the three estates the unions are no longer an estate of the realm
   • ▪ dated a particular class or category of people in society the spiritual welfare of all estates of men
   • 4. archaic, literary a particular state, period, or condition in life programs for the improvement of man's estate the holy estate of matrimony 同義詞 state, condition, situation, position, circumstance, ... 更多lot, fate