real estate

noun

Synonyms of real estatenext
1
: property in buildings and land
2
: space, capacity
her desktop real estate
the limited real estate on hard drives—Leonard Wiener

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She works in real estate. the enormous difference in real estate between a high-definition disk and one in standard definition
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The urban middle classes are in despair because the bursting of a real estate bubble — deliberately engineered by Xi — has evaporated the value of their main asset. — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2026 New York native Ari Chananya now works in Miami’s real estate industry and has lived at Edgewater’s EDITION Residences building for a year. — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2026 Papazian hand-selected his team from both production and real estate backgrounds, giving the campus an unusual dual fluency. — Partner Content, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026 Before their arrests, Tal, 40, and Oren, 39, were best known for scaling New York’s luxury real estate industry. — Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for real estate

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1642, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of real estate was circa 1642

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“Real estate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/real%20estate. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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Kids Definition

real estate

noun
: property consisting of buildings and land

Legal Definition

real estate

noun
: real property at property

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