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estate
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)
- The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. [from 19thc.]
- (now rare, archaic) state; condition. [from 13thc.]
- Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.
- (archaic) Status, rank. [from 13thc.]
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- (archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions. [from 14thc.]
- (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman. [14th-17thc.]
- Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.
- (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 14thc.]
- 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.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p.115:
- (law) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land. [from 15thc.]
- An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership. [from 18thc.]
- The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
- (Britain, sometimes derogatory) A housing estate. [from 20thc.]
- (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 20thc.]
- (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.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
Synonyms
- (estate car) estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagon
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
estate (not comparable)
- (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)
- (obsolete, transitive) To give an estate to.
- (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)
- 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)
- 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
- Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of estar, está and the pronoun te.
estate From the web:
- what estate did the clergy belong to
- what estate was the clergy
- what estate was the bourgeoisie
- what estate was the king in
- what estate paid the most taxes
- what estate was robespierre in
- what estate had the largest population
- what estate was napoleon in
intensity
English
Etymology
intense +? -ity. Cf. also Medieval Latin intensitas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?t?ns?ti/
Noun
intensity (plural intensities)
- The quality of being intense.
- The degree of strength.
- (physics) Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.
- (optics) Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
- (astronomy) Synonym of radiance.
- (geology) The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings. The value depends on the distance from the epicentre, and is not to be confused with the magnitude.
Derived terms
- light intensity
- luminous intensity
Related terms
- intense
Translations
intensity From the web:
- what intensity means
- what intensity exercise should i do
- what intensity should warm-up activities be
- what intensity is yoga
- what intensity is walking
- what intensity is running
- what intensity level is walking
- what intensity is jogging
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