English > estate: 3 senses > noun 2, possession| Meaning | extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use. |
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| Example | "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" |
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| Synonyms | land, landed estate, acres, demesne |
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| Narrower | Crown land | Land that belongs to the Crown |
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| barony | The estate of a baron / baron |
| countryseat | An estate in the country |
| entail | Land received by fee tail |
| fief, feoff | A piece of land held under the feudal system |
| freehold | An estate held in fee simple or for life |
| glebe | Plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office |
| hacienda | A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries |
| homestead | Land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law |
| leasehold | Land or property held under a lease |
| manor | The landed estate of a lord (including the house on it) |
| plantation | An estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) |
| seigneury, seigniory, signory | The estate of a seigneur |
| smallholding | A piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation |
| Broader | real property, real estate, realty, immovable | Property consisting of houses and land |
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| Spanish | dominio, finca, hacienda, terreno, tierra |
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| Catalan | acres, béns, finca, hisenda, terra, terreny |
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English > estate: 3 senses > noun 3, group| Meaning | A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights. |
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| Synonyms | estate of the realm, the three estates |
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| Part of | state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic | A politically organized body of people under a single government |
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| Region | France, French Republic | A republic in western Europe |
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| United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain | A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles |
| Narrower | first estate, Lords Spiritual | The clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain |
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| fourth estate | The press, including journalists, newspaper writers, photographers |
| second estate, Lords Temporal | The nobility in France and the peerage in Britain |
| third estate, Commons | The common people |
| Broader | class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class | People having the same social, economic, or educational status |
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