Estate Left ɪˈsteɪt People Family Lives Large Living

• a 3 000-acre estate
• she receives rent from all the people whose cottages are on estate land.
• she lives in a tower block on an estate in london.
• her estate was left to her daughter.

estate

1. a large area of land, usually in the country, that is owned by one person or family
• a 3 000-acre estate
• She receives rent from all the people whose cottages are on estate land.
2. an area of land with a lot of houses or factories of the same type on it
• see also council estate
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/council-estate
• She lives in a tower block on an estate in London.
3. all the money and property that a person owns, especially everything that is left when they die
• Her estate was left to her daughter.
• He left estate valued at a million dollars.
• = estate car
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/estate-car

Extra Examples

• Gilbert was heir to an extensive landed estate.
• He owned a palatial estate in California.
• He owns personal estate worth $30 million.
• It took seven years to settle the estate.
• Queen Victoria bought the estate in 1848.
• She inherited her father’s estate.
• She left her whole estate to her niece.
• She lives on a council estate in Leeds.
• The bulk of his estate was bequeathed to his son Jacob.
• The factory is on a large industrial estate on the outskirts of town.
• The family owns a large estate in the north of the country.
• The young prince is the heir to a vast estate in the west of the country.
• an estate of 20 000 acres
• assets from your taxable estate
• the family estate at Kostroma
• the family mansion and sprawling country estate
• the number of people living on the estate
• to transfer estate taxes to the next generation
• youngsters living on deprived housing estates
• Next to the factory they built a housing estate specially for their employees.
• The house is set on a 200-acre estate near the Black Mountains.
• There are around six million people living on council estates in Britain.
• We’re planning to move the business to an industrial estate on the outskirts of the town.

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘state or condition’): from Old French estat, from Latin status ‘state, condition’, from stare ‘to stand’.