Estate may refer to:
- Estate (law), a term in common law for a person's property, entitlements and obligations.
- Estates of the realm, a broad social category in the histories of certain countries.
- Estate (land), the grounds and tenancies (such as farms, housing, woodland, parkland) associated with a very large property.
- Housing estate, a group of houses built as a single development.
- Industrial estate, and trading estate, property planned and sublet for industrial and commercial use.
- Estate, a brand of major appliances, first from RCA, afterwards from Whirlpool Corporation.
- Estate car, passenger car with a full-size back cargo compartment, a station wagon.
- Estate (song), a 1960 Italian song and jazz standard.
- Estate (album), a jazz piano album by Michel Petrucciani.
- Estate, Information Technology term for a set of computers and other technology infrastructure, generally the total set owned by a corporation, as in "Estate Management." See ITIL and other standards.
Famous quotes containing the word estate:
“Wilt thou have this Woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God’s ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?”
—Book Of Common Prayer, The. Solemnization of Matrimony, “Betrothal,” (1662)
“Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)