estate

柯林斯詞典

1. N-COUNT An estate is a large area of land in the country which is owned by a person, family, or organization. 莊園
He spent holidays at the 300-acre estate of his aunt and uncle. 他在叔叔和嬸嬸的300英畝莊園里度過許多假日。
2. N-COUNT Someone's estate is all the money and property that they leave behind when they die. 遺產(chǎn)[法律]
His estate was valued at $150,000. 他的遺產(chǎn)價值為15萬美元。
3. →see also real estate

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 .