estates
- 1Plural of estate.
The duke's estates stretched across three neighboring counties.
Several country estates were converted into hotels after the war.
Note
The plural reaches across several of the singular's meanings. Landed properties pluralize easily: the great estates of Britain, with their grounds and follies. So do the assets left by different people at death. The historical sense is the most at home in the plural: the Estates of the realm, the social orders, like the three estates of feudal society, that once held distinct political rights.
estates is a form of estate
estate, noun: The total property, money, and debts belonging to someone, especially what a person leaves behind at death. Full entry
- Forms
- estateestates plural
- Spelling
- estate → estates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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