(n.) Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
(n.) Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
(n.) A person of high rank.
(n.) A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.
(n.) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
(n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.
(n.) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.
(v. t.) To establish.
(v. t.) Tom settle as a fortune.
(v. t.) To endow with an estate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(2) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
(3) You could also chat to local estate agents to get an idea of what kind of extension, if any, would appeal to buyers in your area.
(4) To mark World Aids Day, THT is opening a charity shop in Soho Estates’ Walkers Court development in central Soho.
(5) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
(6) On the point about whether the estate is “viable”: if the alternative is the land beneath it on the open market, for a private developer to pay bubble prices, then nothing is really viable.
(7) Last night, the trouble spread to the mainly Asian suburb of Manningham, an area of sprawling and deprived terraced housing estates.
(8) The prince's spokesman, asked about the effect of the judge's ruling, gave a different reason to the duchy for the estate not paying corporation tax.
(9) Britain's estate agents today report a surge in the number of properties for sale amid signs jittery vendors are keen to strike a deal before next month's general election.
(10) Trump and his wife, Melania, descended an escalator into the basement lobby of the Trump Tower on 16 June 2015, for an announcement many observers said would never come: the celebrity real estate developer, who had flirted with running for office in the past, would announce that he was launching his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
(11) Because the housing crisis goes far beyond us Focus E15 mums | Jasmin Stone Read more Annette May, 68, from Lambeth Annette May has watched with mounting dismay as the community fabric of the council estate where she has lived for 44 years steadily unravels.
(12) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.
(13) The Brinks Mat gang, some with guns, surprised six security staff as they started the Saturday shift between 6.30am and 8.15am at the warehouse, on the Heathrow industrial estate at Hounslow.
(14) Ed Mead, a director of estate agency Douglas & Gordon, says the recent pace of price rises has been deterring some homeowners from selling up in case they miss out on more growth.
(15) When the couple looked over their own balcony on the 15th floor of 63 Petershill Drive in Glasgow's Red Road estate, they saw three bodies on the small square of grass below.
(16) This has lifted many estates in the £300-500,000 band out of inheritance tax altogether: at this point we are beginning to talk about substantial, indeed life-altering, sums of money.
(17) The housing developments being targeted reportedly include the Winstanley estate in Wandsworth, south London.
(18) But this is not to say that I do not have a working knowledge of true bedsitters - and yes, they do still exist, in spite of estate agents' profligate use of the term 'studio flat'.
(19) His study finds that the differences are a result of stereotyping, as opposed to other factors, and are particularly pronounced in areas where there are fewer black children – or fewer children from very poor estates.
(20) In this context, it is hard not to wonder whether a scheme on the scale and ambition of Packington, located as it is in a sea of valuable central London real estate, could ever be replicated.
Nobleman
Definition:
(n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.
Example Sentences:
(1) This finished with a concert performance of the finale from Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, which tells the story of a nobleman, Florestan, who is rescued from prison by his wife dressed as a prison guard, Fidelio.
(2) A new allele (C3*F0.35) was detected in a Chinese individual and in a nobleman from Bali.
(3) "I can't separate the business from the personal," he grumps over a shot of an oil painting depicting him as a jubilant 18th-century nobleman surrounded by his children's whooping disembodied heads.
(4) This paper presents and explains an early clinical discussion of the case of a young nobleman who had developed a severe speech impediment associated with anxiety.
(5) This note concerns the analysis of a work written in the early years of the century by a discredited Polish nobleman.
(6) There is the terrible gaffe he makes which sets the whole terrible train of events in motion (it's a small train, admittedly, but big enough to cause havoc); there is his initial impression that Kekesfalva is a genuine venerable Hungarian nobleman, that Condor is a bumpkin and a fool; and, in one splendidly subtle piece of writing, in which an interior state of mind is beautifully translated into memorable yet familiar imagery, he imagines himself to be better put together than Condor, when they walk out in bright moonlight on the night of their first meeting: And as we walked down the apparently snow-covered gravel drive, suddenly we were not two but four, for our shadows went ahead of us, clear-cut in the bright moonlight.
(7) "They seek the secret of the Grail," gasps carbuncular nobleman Bertrand, as swarms of rhubarbing crusaders prepare to storm his ramparts.
(8) The head of a once noble house, which he inherited from a great nobleman.
(9) The pool is spring-fed and there’s lots of local mystery surrounding it.” A woodcutter’s daughter, for example, is said to have met a tragic fate after being so scared by a nobleman on a horse that she swam into deeper water and drowned.
(10) Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor will play the sorcerous nobleman Baron Mordo opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Marvel Studios’ forthcoming superhero epic Doctor Strange, reports Deadline .
(11) This was more like a scene in a Shakespeare play where a nobleman switches places with his servant.
(12) Ultimately, she ditches Severin for a hot-headed Greek nobleman.
(13) Olof af Acrel, the father of Swedish Surgery, operated in 1768 upon a young nobleman who had experienced an increasing swelling on the skull, due to a tumour which also turned out to be growing deep into the brain parenchyma.
(14) A married woman with a 12-year-old son is bored of her life and succumbs to a fling with a predatory nobleman; another woman is terrorised into blackmail by someone she assumes is the other "kept woman" of her lover; a doctor asks for sexual favours from the woman who has come to him for a secret abortion.
(15) In the second book of the Essais towards the end of the twelfth chapter Montaigne mentions a nobleman who does not take note of his blindness.
(16) So Mason could be lord and nobleman, a very upper-class fellow - he did that from his Flaubert in the silly MGM production of Madame Bovary to Brutus in the same studio's Julius Caesar, from Mr Jordan in Heaven Can Wait to the "prince of darkness" lawyer, Ed Concannon, in The Verdict.
(17) Goodwin Wharton (1653-1704) was a nobleman's son and a Whig MP who played no small part in English public life.
(18) Born in 1745 in the town of Como in what is now northern Italy, Volta was the son of a nobleman.