Thesaurus results for ESTATES

estates

noun

plural of estate

as in mansions

a large impressive residence the estates of multimillionaires line the shores of this ocean resort

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one of the segments of society into which people are grouped the passionate belief that a society is judged by how well it treats and cares for those in the lowest estate

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a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock a huge coffee estate in Brazil

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Recent Examples of estates Her stories depicted Irish estates, London courtships, and heroes who ranged from dashing to bumbling. — Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026 To name just a few, wine estates like Castello di Amorosa, Larkmead Vineyards, and Benessere Vineyards are within either walking or cycling distance. — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2026 The quiet island off Miami Beach has its own police department patrolling the 41 sprawling estates and luxury compounds on land and sea. — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026 The group now runs 15 hotels throughout Europe, including city hotels in Paris, London, and Venice, countryside estates in the Cotswolds and Biarritz, mountain chalets in Verbier and Val d’Isère, and seaside resorts in Ibiza and Menorca. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026 Affleck, 54, has bought and sold everything from a Georgia island compound to sprawling Los Angeles estates, sharing some homes with his former wives and moving on from others as his life changed. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2026 Along the way, captains point out everything from Rollins College and Kraft Azalea Garden to historic estates tucked beneath towering cypress trees and canopies of Spanish moss. — Amber Love Bond, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2026 Several Neues Frankfurt estates and their original interiors have been placed under Denkmalschutz, or landmark protection, and the city has hired Frost to restore the kitchens for new tenants. — Tara Anne Dalbow, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026 Kair offered advice for homeowners looking to protect their estates. — Joan Murray, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

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Noun

South Florida luxury often means oceanfront mansions, private docks and high-rise penthouses.

— Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026
Not only mansions but also apartment buildings are subject to the tax, which developers say makes new projects financially unfeasible and has slowed down apartment construction.

— Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

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By the 2000s scientists had detected thousands of GRBs, and researchers suspected they were being created by two classes of objects.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Atlanta Technical College said the campus was secured after the incident and that classes and operations resumed.

— CBS News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of classes

Noun

Every year, Pigott and his son start thinking about the pumpkin in August, scouting farms in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Upstate New York.

— Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
The Kenya pipeline expansion is part of Dangote’s plan to own a distribution network that includes regional tank farms and other pipelines that will connect the group’s refineries to prospective markets across the continent.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of farms

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Tulu society is organized into several castes and communities, including Billavas, Shivalli Brahmins, Bunts, and Mogaveeras.

— Andrew Pereira, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Aug. 2026
Subterranean, drywood and dampwood, the three most common types of termites in the United States, all have reproductive castes capable of flying in swarms.

— Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 14 May 2026

Definition of castes

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Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026

Definition of haciendas

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The three-part documentary follows the brothers’ rise from their privileged youth in Miami to reaching the highest echelons of high-end real estate, first at Douglas Elliman and then at their own brokerage, called Official.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
Even within the highest echelons of wealth concentration, these two groups are on different trajectories.

— Markus Schneider, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026

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