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estate
has definitions from the field of sociology
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[ noun ] everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
Used in print (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes , the startled horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are_born at the end of an ancestral line long_since divorced from money-making and which , besides , has kept its estate intact . Related terms property personal_property net_estate life_estate jointure gross_estate |
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[ noun ] extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
Synonyms Examples "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" Used in print (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)From there it looked_across at Westchester_County and the Hudson_River where the manor_houses , estates , and big farms of the original ( non Indian ) landowners began . |
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[ noun ] (sociology) a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights
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