How to spell estate

Estate is spelled E-S-T-A-T-E. It is E + state: an A after the T, then -TE, es-tate.

hear ites·tate/ɛ'steɪt/nounRules and real life

What it means: The big house sat in the middle of a large property.

In a sentence: The big house sat in the middle of a green estate.

Same family: estates, estates-general, class, order, hierarchy. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Estate comes from Old French "estat" and Latin "status," meaning "state" or "condition." Over time, it came to refer not only to a person's social position but also to organized social orders with specific political rights, like the famous "Third Estate" in France.

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