How to pronounce “estate”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. [from 19th c.]
• (now rare, archaic) state; condition. [from 13th c.]
• (archaic) Status, rank. [from 13th c.]
• (archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions. [from 14th c.]
• (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman. [14th–17th c.]
• (historical) 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 (Estates of the realm). [from 14th c.]
• (law) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land. [from 15th c.]
• An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership. [from 18th c.]
• The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
• (UK, sometimes derogatory) A housing estate. [from 20th c.]
• (UK, automotive) A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating). [from 20th c.]
• (obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
• (computing) An organization's collective information technology resources.
• [Adjective]
• (jewelry, euphemistic) Previously owned; secondhand.
• [Verb]
• (obsolete, transitive) To give an estate to.
• (obsolete, transitive) To bestow upon.

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