Definition of estate
- n. - Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or
circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
- n. - Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
- n. - A person of high rank.
- n. - A property which a person possesses; a fortune;
possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a
person leaves to be divided at his death.
- n. - The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the
general interest; state affairs.
- n. - The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the
clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their
representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the
realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords
temporal, (3) the commons.
- n. - The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest
in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life,
for years, at will, etc.
- v. t. - To establish.
- v. t. - Tom settle as a fortune.
- v. t. - To endow with an estate.