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(1):

(n.) Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.

(2):

(n.) 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.

(3):

(n.) Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.

(4):

(n.) 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.

(5):

(v. t.) To establish.

(6):

(v. t.) Tom settle as a fortune.

(7):

(v. t.) To endow with an estate.

(8):

(n.) A person of high rank.

(9):

(n.) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

(10):

(n.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Estate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​e/estate.html. 1828.
 
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