estate
noun uk/ɪˈsteɪt/ us/ɪˈsteɪt/
(PROPERTY)
B2 [ C ]（位于乡村的）大片私有土地，庄园，种植园
a large area of land in the country that is owned by a family or an organization and is often used for growing crops or raising animals
It's a typical country estate with a large house for the owner, farm buildings, and estate workers' houses. 这是一个典型的乡村庄园，建有主人的大宅子、许多农舍以及庄园工人的住处。
[ C ] law specialized（个人死后留下的全部）财产，遗产
everything that a person owns when they die
She left her entire estate to her niece. 她把所有的遗产都留给了自己的侄女。
- More examples
- The estate for sale includes two miles of river frontage.
- What acreage is her estate ?
- With the income from the family estate, she's in clover.
- The wood lies on the southern extremity of the estate.
- She will inherit her father's estate when she reaches her majority.
(BUILDINGS)
B2 [ C ] UK（按规划建造的）住宅区，工业区
a group of houses or factories built in a planned way
a housing estate 住宅区
an industrial estate (= a group of factories) 工业区
- More examples
- She was brought up in a council estate in Liverpool.
- Police are blaming arsonists for the spate of fires in the Greenfields housing estate.
- They have a four-bedroom house on a newish estate.
- They live on a great concrete warren of a housing estate.
- The estate contains 300 new homes, about a third of which are leased to the council.
(CAR)
[ C ] UK (also estate car); (US station wagon)旅游汽车；客货两用轿车
a car with a lot of space behind the back seat and an extra door at the back for putting in large objects
(STATE)
[ U ] old use状况；状态
a state of being
the holy estate of marriage 婚姻的神圣性