{
    "term": "estate",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an area of land with a lot of houses or factories of the same type on it",
            "sensetop": "on an estate",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She lives in a tower block on an estate in London.",
                    "contextForm": "on an estate"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["large", "massive", "small"],
                "verb + estate": ["build"],
                "preposition": ["on an/​the estate"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a large area of land, usually in the country, that is owned by one person or family",
            "sensetop": "on an estate",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a 3 000-acre estate"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The poet's childhood was spent on a **country estate**.",
                    "contextForm": "on an estate"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She receives rent from all the people whose cottages are on estate land."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Gilbert was heir to an extensive landed estate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Queen Victoria bought the estate in 1848."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The family owns a large estate in the north of the country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the family estate at Kostroma"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the family mansion and sprawling country estate"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "great", "huge"],
                "verb + estate": ["have", "own", "buy"],
                "estate + noun": ["manager", "owner", "worker"],
                "preposition": ["on an/​the estate", "estate of"],
                "phrases": ["an heir to an estate"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "all the money and property that a person owns, especially everything that is left when they die",
            "labels": "(law)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her estate was left to her daughter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He left estate valued at a million dollars."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He owns personal estate worth $30 million."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It took seven years to settle the estate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bulk of his estate was bequeathed to his son Jacob."
                },
                {
                    "text": "assets from your taxable estate"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["personal", "taxable"],
                "verb + estate": ["bequeath", "leave", "inherit"],
                "estate + verb": ["be valued at something", "be worth something"],
                "estate + noun": ["tax", "sale"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a car with a lot of space behind the back seats and a door at the back for loading large items",
            "labels": "(both British English)North American English",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈsteɪt/",
                "audio": "es/estate/estate__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈsteɪt/",
                "audio": "es/estate/estate__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘state or condition’): from Old French estat, from Latin status ‘state, condition’, from stare ‘to stand’."
}