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Estate| Noun | 1. | estate - everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilitiesgross 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) jointure, legal jointure - (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower | | | 2. | estate - extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"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 manor - the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it) 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 | | | 3. | estate - a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rightsbody politic, nation, res publica, commonwealth, country, state, land - a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" | |
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