estate
everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,151 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,207 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
- extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use also: land, landed estate, acres, demesne the family owned a large estate on Long Island
- 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 also: estate of the realm, the three estates
estate in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Then she sold the estate and disappeared.
A Double Barrelled Detective Story · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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Uncle has a big estate on Long Island, plenty more millions there.
The City of Fire · Grace Livingston Hill · Chapter 1
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Old Blackburn had never done anything to improve the estate or its surroundings.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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He contented himself, therefore, with acquiring an estate that should be valuable, rather from its quality and beauty, than from its extent.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish · James Fenimore Cooper · Chapter 1
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She was aware, however, that there was less content and happiness on the estate than there had been in the old times.
With Lee in Virginia · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1