n. A fixed or established condition; a special form of existence; state.n. Condition or circumstances of a person or thing; situation; especially, the state of a person as regards external circumstances.n. Rank; quality; status.n. Style of living: usually with a distinctive opithet, high, great, etc., implying pomp or dignity.n. In law: The legal position or status of an owner, considered with respect to his property; ownership, tenancy, or tenure; property in land or other things.n. More technically, and with relation only to land, the degree or quantity of interest, considered in respect to the nature of the right, its period of duration, or its relation to the rights of others, which a person has in land.n. Property in general; possessions; particularly, the property left at a man's death: as, at his death his estate was of the value of half a million; the trustees proceeded to realize the estate.n. A piece of landed property; a definite portion of land in the ownership of some one: as, there is more wood on his estate than on mine.n. The body politic; state; commonwealth; public; public interest.n. One of the orders or classes into which the population of some countries is or has been divided, with respect to political rights and powers.n. A person of high station or rank; a noble.n. A name humorously given in recent times to the newspaper press, or the body of journalists, as constituting a power in the state distinct from that of the three recognized political orders.To establish in possession; settle.To settle as a possession; bestow; deed.To settle an estate upon; endow with an estate or other property.
