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housing estates

housing estates is the plural of housing estate.

Meaning of housing estate

Noun

housing estate (plural housing estates)

  1. A group of often architecturally similar buildings constructed at the same time, primarily for residential accommodation.
    • She suggested he was destroying all Sarkozy had achieved in proving that a traditional, Catholic, rightwing area could vote for an ethnic-minority candidate such as her, from a poor housing estate in the provinces, the Muslim child of illiterate north African parents. She vowed to "resist" Fillon.2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in The Guardian

Questions about housing estates

What is housing estates the plural of?
Housing estates is the plural of housing estate.

Words near housing estates in the dictionary

  1. housing
  2. housing bubble
  3. housing bubbles
  4. housing commission
  5. housing estate
  6. housing estates
  7. housing project
  8. housing projects
  9. housing stock
  10. housing stocks
  11. housing unit

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