Estate vs Own - What's the difference?
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:when I came to man's estate
*(Bible), (w) xii. 16
*:Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate .
(label) Status, rank.
*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
*:God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.
(label) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions.
(label) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman.
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*:And anone came oute of a chamber to hym the fayrest lady that euer he sawe & more rycher bysene than euer he sawe Quene Gueneuer or ony other estat Lo sayd they syre Bors here is the lady vnto whome we owe alle oure seruyse / and I trowe she be the rychest lady and the fayrest of alle the world
*(Bible), (w) vi. 21
*:Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.
*(w) (1775-1864)
*:She's a duchess, a great estate .
(label) A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights ((Estates of the realm)).
*1992 , (Hilary Mantel), (A Place of Greater Safety) , Harper Perennial 2007, p.115:
*:I am afraid that some of the nobles who are campaigning for it simply want to use the Estates to cut down the King's power and increase their own.
*2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p.202:
*:The three estates of feudal lords, clergy and royal officers met in separate chambers, and exercised an advisory role.
(label) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land.
An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership.
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The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.
(label) A housing estate.
(label) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoeverconcerneth manifestly any great portion of people.
(lb) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); "To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to." (Ref 1)
(lb) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
* 1902 , Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness , Tank Books 2007, p. 25:
* 1913 ,
(lb) To claim as one's own; to answer to.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
(lb) To acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of. (Ref 3)
(lb) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
(lb) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled (m).
To illicitly obtain "super-user" or "root" access into a computer system thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
Belonging to; possessed; proper to.
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, title= (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
(obsolete) Not foreign.
(obsolete) To grant; give.
To admit; concede; acknowledge.
* 1611 , Shakespeare, The Tempest , v.:
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. 1, ''Jocelin of Brakelond
To recognise; acknowledge.
To confess.
As a noun estate
is .As a verb own is
(lb) to have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); "to possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to" (ref 1) or own can be (obsolete) to grant; give.As an adjective own is
belonging to; possessed; proper to.estate
English
(wikipedia estate)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (estate car) estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagonDerived terms
* concurrent estate * council estate * estate agent * estate for life * estate in land * estate sale * estate tax * fourth estate * housing estate * industrial estate * leasehold estate * life estate * overspill estate * real estate * residuary estate * sink estate * third estate * trading estateSee also
*Anagrams
* ----own
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia own) From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) (m). See also the related term (m).Verb
(en verb)- I own this car.
- I am sorry to own I began to worry then.
- They learned how perfectly peaceful the home could be. And they almost regretted—though none of them would have owned to such callousness—that their father was soon coming back.
- I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
- I will own my enemies.
- If he wins, he will own you.
Synonyms
* (have rightful possession of) to possess * (acknowledge responsibility for) be responsible for, admit or take responsibility for * (admit) confess, acknowledge, allow * (defeat) beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, bestDerived terms
* owndom * own up * owner * pwn * disownEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), .Alternative forms
* (informal contraction)Adjective
(en determiner)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own .}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you
Usage notes
* implying ownership, often with emphasis. It always follows a possessive pronoun, or a noun in the possessive case.Derived terms
* come into one's own * on one's ownEtymology 3
From (etyl) is attested.Etymology] of the German cognate in [[:w:de:Deutsches Wörterbuch, Deutsches Wörterbuch]
Verb
(en verb)- Two of those fellows you must know and own .
- It must be owned , the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things!
- to own one as a son
