estates
What wills divide
Estates is the plural of estate, covering its various meanings.
Real estate encompasses land and property: She manages several estates in the countryside.
A person's estate is everything they own, especially at death: The estates were divided among the heirs.
In historical and legal contexts, estates are classes of society with political standing—clergy, nobility, and commoners were the three estates of pre-revolutionary France.
The fourth estate is journalism, wielding influence comparable to those formal powers.
manor
Landed aristocratic residence
landholdings · acreage · grounds · holdings · assets · realty · parcel · tract · homestead · freehold
aristocracy
Rule by hereditary elite
realm · hierarchy · lords · commons · clergy · bourgeoisie · peasantry · oligarchy · elite · stratification
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
- Long IslandLong Island, Huntington, Hempstead, Montauk, Babylon
- medieval governancefeudal hierarchy, vassalage, lordship, commons, royal authority
- noble privilegespeerage, titles, lordship, fiefdom, manorial rights
- Regency SocietyRegency, manners, etiquette, courtship, ballrooms
- UK Housingcouncil houses, Victorian terrace, council flats, terraced houses, back-to-back
estatesshacks
Crude, flimsy dwellings
studio apartments · apartments · flats · studios · bedsits
estatesslums
Impoverished, crowded districts
ghettos · projects · tenements · shantytowns · council housing
estatesrentals
Leased items or properties
leaseholds · tenancies · homelessness · landlessness · dispossession
- real estateLand and its structures
- real estate agentLicensed property seller
- estate salesHousehold contents sold after death
- private estatesIndividually owned large properties
- real estate marketTrade in land and buildings
- real estate bubbleOverheated property market phenomenon