estateとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: ĭs-tāt, IPA^(key): /ɪsˈteɪt/
• 韻: -eɪt

名詞

estate (複数形 estates)

1. The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. [from 19^thc.]
2. (now rare, archaic) state; condition. [from 13^thc.]
   • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     But when I came to man's estate,. With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,. 'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Romans 12:16:

     Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.

3. (archaic) Status, rank. [from 13^thc.]
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.

4. (archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions. [from 14^thc.]
5. (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman. [14^th-17^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI:

     And anone came oute of a chamber to hym the fayrest lady that euer he sawe & more rycher bysene than euer he sawe Quene Gueneuer or ony other estat Lo sayd they syre Bors here is the lady vnto whome we owe alle oure seruyse / and I trowe she be the rychest lady and the fayrest of alle the world

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Mark 6:21:

     Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.

6. (historical) 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 (Estates of the realm). [from 14^thc.]
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p.115:

     I am afraid that some of the nobles who are campaigning for it simply want to use the Estates to cut down the King's power and increase their own.

   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p.202:

     The three estates of feudal lords, clergy and royal officers met in separate chambers, and exercised an advisory role.

7. (law) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land. [from 15^thc.]
8. An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership. [from 18^thc.]
   • 2014 September 7, “Doddington's garden pyramid is a folly good show: The owners of a Lincolnshire stately home have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid [print edition: Great pyramid of Lincolnshire, 6 September 2014, p. G2]”, in The Daily Telegraph‎^[1], London:

     It has been a long time since new follies were springing up across the great estates of Britain. But the owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.

9. The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
10. (Britain, sometimes derogatory) A housing estate. [from 20^thc.]
    • 2012 October 19, McDermott, Josephine, “London's new housing loses the 'dirty word'”, in BBC News‎^[2]:

      Professor Loretta Lees from King's College London's geography department says, "The word 'estate' has become synonymous with the term 'ghetto'. It's become a dirty word. Back in the '20s and '30s it didn't carry the same stigma."

11. (Britain, automotive) A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (または liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (かつ often extensible into that compartment via folding または removable seating). [from 20^thc.]
12. (obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
    • 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature

      I call matter of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever […] concerneth manifestly any great portion of people.

同意語

• (estate car) estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagon

派生語

形容詞

estate (not comparable)

1. (jewelry, euphemistic) Previously owned; secondhand.

   an estate diamond; estate jewelry

動詞

estate (三人称単数 現在形 estates, 現在分詞 estating, 過去形および過去分詞形 estated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To give an estate to.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To bestow upon.

参考

• Estate (land) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• eatest, tatees, tea set, testae, testæ