Definition of Estate

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Estate

Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.

Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.

A person of high rank.

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.

The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

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.

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.

To establish.

Tom settle as a fortune.

To endow with an estate.

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Estate Quotations

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
Donald Trump

Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
Donald Trump

My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
Epictetus

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Ambrose Bierce

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.
Michel de Montaigne

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.
Jackie Chan

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Estate Translations

estate in Afrikaans is plaas, nalatenskap, boereplaas
estate in Dutch is bezitting, goed, boerderij, landgoed
estate in Finnish is maatila
estate in German is Grundbesitz, Besitztum, Gutshof
estate in Italian is fattoria
estate in Portuguese is fazenda, granja, propriedade
estate in Spanish is granja, finca

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