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Definition of estate : 1. A person of high rank.
2. A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.
3. Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
4. Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
5. The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.
6. The great classes or orders of a community or state ( as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm ( England), which are the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, the commons.
7. The state; the general body politic; the common- wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
8. To endow with an estate.
9. To establish.
10. Tom settle as a fortune.

Synonyms:

acres, centralism, barrio, country, agroindustry, nation, nick, palace, shape, form, caste, health, mass media, trim, real estate agent, big government, castle, brownfield, block, cloister, farming, soil, landed, commonwealth, earth, breed, surveyor, position, back, dragster, kilter, real property, cantonment, environment, climate, bequest, demo, agora, absolutism, autarky, château, agribusiness, landed estate, manor house, journalists, agriculture, classic car, acre, dry land, area, state of affairs, gentry, armpit, law, res publica, folk, close, grange, journalism, terra firma, keeping, estate of the realm, agrarian, order, plantation, blind alley, situation, press, Realtor, state, demesne, car park, endowment, coupe, background, cabriolet, holdings, convertible, solid ground, campus, agrochemical, cruiser, alleyway, conditions, grounds, autonomy, manse, circumstance, borough, villa, anarchy, context, owned, cabbagetown, automatic, body politic, burbs, fettle, repair, the CAP, agronomics, personal property, event, estate agent, agronomy, autocracy, agricultural, television, hacienda, stratum, heritage, banana republic, radio, coalition, patrimony, alley, backyard, farmstead, the three estates, hall, compact, caretaker government, arcade

empire, title, assets, domain, resources, inheritance, legacy, fixtures, real estate, ground, realm, effects, kingdom, farm, belongings, manor, land, principal, ranch, realty, possession, goods, stock, chattel, holding, territory

net worth, possessions, asset, prosperousness, riches, profit, landslide, plenty, wealth, capital, opulence, property, sufficiency, income, prosperity, worth, fortune, affluence, plenteousness

Usage examples:

• " Your estate is all settled now. - "The Reclaimers", Margaret Hill McCarter.
• Great Hedge, I might say, was the name of a large estate Grandpa Ford had bought to live on not a great while before. - "Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's", Laura Lee Hope.
• You, with care, can certainly save twenty- five thousand dollars each in the ten years, and will receive another fifty thousand dollars each as your share of the estate. - "On the Pampas", G. A. Henty.