estate

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use

   the family owned a large estate on Long Island

2. 2
   noun

   state; condition.

   But when I came to mans eſtate, With hey ho, [the winde and the raine], Gainſt Knaues and Theeues men ſhut their gate.

3. 3
   noun

   Status, rank.

   God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.

4. 4
   noun

   A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman.

   And anone came oute of a chamber to hym the fayrest lady that euer he sawe & more rycher bysene than euer he sawe Quene Gueneuer or ony other estat Lo sayd they syre Bors here is the lady vnto whome we owe alle oure seruyse / and I trowe she be the rychest lady and the fayrest of alle the world

5. 5
   noun

   An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership.

   It has been a long time since new follies were springing up across the great estates of Britain. But the owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.

6. 6
   noun

   A housing estate.

   Professor Loretta Lees from King's College London's geography department says, "The word 'estate' has become synonymous with the term 'ghetto'. It's become a dirty word. Back in the '20s and '30s it didn't carry the same stigma."

7. 7
   noun

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

   I call matter of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever[…]concerneth manifestly any great portion of people.

8. 8
   noun

   An organization's collective information technology resources.

   This time, however, it only includes the static parameters that you expect to be consistent across your estate.

Etymology

From Middle English estat, from Anglo-Norman estat and Old French estat (French: état), from Latin status. Doublet of state and status.