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
My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Ambrose Bierce
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
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
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
Christopher Marlowe
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
John Gay
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
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
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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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