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Plural of estate

regular plural

The plural of estate is estates.

Forms of estate

Singularestate /ɪˈsteɪt/
Pluralestates /ɪsˈteɪts/
Countablecountable

Estates in a sentence

  • The three estates of feudal lords, clergy and royal officers met in separate chambers, and exercised an advisory role.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 202
  • It has been a long time since new follies were springing up across the great estates of Britain.2014 September 7, “Doddington's garden pyramid is a folly good show: The owners of a Lincolnshire stately home have brought the folly into...
  • Man Wah Sun Chuen in Jordan is one of Hong Kong’s oldest private housing estates.2022 October 9, Yanni Chow, “‘This is our home’: ethnic minority residents of Jordan’s Man Wah Sun Chuen estate may lose community to…. From the entry jordan
  • Loves lost, estates surrendered, Bayanova found herself the Scarlet O’Hara of Bucharest.2008 March 11, Elizabeth Kiem, “Alla Bayanova on the Arbat”, in The Morning News, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026. From the entry Scarlet O'Hara
  • In such contexts, the ישבים are those who “besit” large estates and seats of judgment and power.2006, Philip Francis Esler, Ancient Israel: The Old Testament in Its Social Context, page 157. From the entry besit

Meaning of estate

  1. noun The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.
  2. noun State; condition.
  3. noun Status, rank.

Full definition of estate

Questions about the plural of estate

What is the plural of estate?
The plural of estate is estates.
Is estate countable?
Estate is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: estate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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