different between estate vs assets

English

Etymology

From Middle English estat, from Anglo-Norman estat and Old French estat (French: état), from Latin status. Doublet of state and status.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?s-t?t, IPA^(key): /?s?te?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Noun

estate (plural 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.]
   • 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.]
   • 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.]
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.]
11. (Britain, automotive) A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or 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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

estate (not comparable)

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

   an estate diamond; estate jewelry

Verb

estate (third-person singular simple present estates, present participle estating, simple past and past participle estated)

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

See also

• Estate (land) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• eatest, tatees, tea set, testae, testæ

Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian.

Noun

estate (plural estates)

1. summer

See also

Italian

Alternative forms

• està (poetic or regional)
• state (Tuscan)

Etymology

From Latin aest?tem, accusative of aest?s (“summer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyd?- (“burn; fire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?ta.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: es?tà?te

Noun

estate f (plural estati)

1. summer

Related terms

• estivo

See also

Anagrams

• attese, esatte, esteta, saette, tesate

References

• estate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Spanish

Verb

estate

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of estar, está and the pronoun te.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æsets/

Noun

assets

1. plural of asset

Noun

assets pl (normally plural, singular asset)

1. (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.

   His assets are much greater than his liabilities.

2. (accounting) The left side of a balance sheet.

   The assets must equal liabilities, otherwise there is an error in your balance sheet.

3. (law) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
4. Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.
5. (slang, vulgar, usually in the plural) Private parts; a woman's breasts or buttocks, or a man's genitalia.

Translations

Anagrams

• TESSAs, stases, tasses

Danish

Noun

assets n

1. definite genitive singular of as

Swedish

Noun

assets

1. definite genitive singular of ass