estate
part of speech
noun (an estate, estates)
meaning for a pupil
1) An estate is a large area of land in the country, often with a big house, owned by one person or family. tree →
2) (UK) A housing estate is an area with many houses or flats built together; an industrial estate is an area of factories. tree →
3) A person's estate is all the money and things they own, especially what is left when they die. tree →
4) Real estate (US) is land and buildings that are bought and sold. tree →
5) (UK) An estate car is a car with a long back for luggage. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means a person's condition or rank in life, or sometimes wealth that is gained. It is not a large piece of land. Interpretation: The psalms say God remembers people even when they are low. Proverbs warns that wealth gained too quickly will not be blessed, and tradition reads this as a call for honest gain. In the primary lessons: In stories, rich families live on country estates with gardens and servants. In everyday life people live on housing estates and talk to estate agents when moving house. In maths, a will may share an estate into parts (fractions) among relatives. Phrases: housing estate, country estate, real estate, estate agent, estate car.
examples
- Who remembered us in our low estate, for His mercy endureth for ever; (Writings PSA.136.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- An estate may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. (Writings PRO.20.21, JPS 1917) tree →
- Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; and mine age is as nothing before Thee; surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. (Writings PSA.39.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- The duke owns a huge estate with a castle. tree →
- My cousin lives on a housing estate near the school. tree →
- Dad works on an industrial estate. tree →
- Her estate was shared equally among her three children. tree →
- If an estate of 90,000 pounds is split three ways, each gets 30,000. tree →
- The estate agent sold our house. tree →
- We put the bikes in the back of the estate car. tree →
- "Truly a fine estate," said the King to the Marquis of Carabas. tree →
note
Countable. Real estate (USA) = property; in the UK people say "property". "Estate agent" (UK) = "real estate agent" or "realtor" (USA). Do not confuse with "state".
In the corpora
- Who remembered us in our low estate, for His mercy endureth for ever;
- An estate may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
- An estate agent helps sell houses, and viewings are when people who might buy come to look round.
- Toad describes his house like an estate agent's advert: «an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence very unique ...
- "A retirement community" is a housing estate built for old people.
Trees and pragmatics
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