Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - estate

(estates) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. An estate is a large area of land in the country which is owned by a person, family, or organization. ...a shooting party on Lord Wyville’s estate in Yorkshire. N-COUNT 2. People sometimes use estate to refer to a housing estate or an industrial estate. (BRIT) He used to live on the estate. N-COUNT 3. Someone’s estate is all the money and property that they leave behind them when they die. (LEGAL) His estate was valued at $150,000. N-COUNT: oft poss N 4. see also housing estate, industrial estate, real estate