estate

Noun
  1. Everything you own;
    All of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities (synset 113271829)
    is a type of: belongings, holding, property - something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
    subtypes:
    • gross estate - the total valuation of the estate's assets at the time of the person's death
    • net estate - the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate; the estate then left to be distributed (and subject to federal and state inheritance taxes)
    • estate for life, life estate - (law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it
    • jointure, legal jointure - (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower
  2. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use (synset 113267561)
    "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
    is a type of: immovable, real estate, real property, realty - property consisting of houses and land
    subtypes:
    • freehold - an estate held in fee simple or for life
    • glebe - plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
    • leasehold - land or property held under a lease
    • smallholding - a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation
    • homestead - land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law
    • feoff, fief - a piece of land held under the feudal system
    • barony - the estate of a baron
    • countryseat - an estate in the country
    • crown land - land that belongs to the Crown
    • manor - the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)
    • seigneury, seigniory, signory - the estate of a seigneur
    • hacienda - a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries
    • plantation - an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
    • entail - land received by fee tail
    same as: acres, demesne, land, landed estate
  3. 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 (synset 108184264)
    domain region:
    is a type of: class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum - people having the same social, economic, or educational status
    subtypes:
    is a part of: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica, state - a politically organized body of people under a single government
    same as: estate of the realm, the three estates

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