settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.-social standing or rank; quality; dignity.-a person of high rank.-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.-the state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.-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.-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.-to establish.-tom settle as a fortune.-to endow with an estate.