Estate

·noun A person of high rank.

II. Estate ·vt Tom settle as a fortune.

III. Estate ·vt To endow with an estate.

IV. Estate ·vt To Establish.

V. Estate ·noun Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.

VI. Estate ·noun The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

VII. Estate ·noun Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.

VIII. Estate ·noun The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, ·etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, ·etc.

IX. Estate ·noun A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, ·esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.

X. Estate ·noun The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.