estate

«estate» in Mova's school dictionary: a large area of land in the country, often with a big… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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

• 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

• 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.
• 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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «estate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.