Estate

Webster's Condensed Dictionary- A Condensed Dictionary of the English Language · 1909 · p. 202

es-tat', n. Fixed condition of any thing or person; rank; state; position; property; esp. property in land; also, property of all Kinds which one leaves to be divided at his death; one of the ranks or cla es of men constituting the 6tate. {Law.) The interest which one has in lands, tenements, or other effects. [OF. est at, L. status. See State.]