Usually means: Classes of societal or political hierarchy.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word estates:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. estates: Merriam-Webster
  2. estates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. estates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Estate's, Estates, estate's, estates, estates: Wordnik
  5. estates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. estates: Wiktionary
  7. estates: Dictionary.com
  8. estates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Estates: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Estates: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. Estates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. estates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Estates: Legal dictionary
  3. Estates: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Estates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Estates: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (estate)

noun:  The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.
noun:  (now rare, archaic) state; condition.
noun:  (archaic) Status, rank.
noun:  (archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions.
noun:  (obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman.
noun:  (historical) 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).
noun:  (law) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land.
noun:  An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership.
noun:  The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
noun:  (UK, sometimes derogatory) A housing estate.
noun:  (UK, automotive) A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating).
noun:  (obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
noun:  (computing) An organization's collective information technology resources.
adjective:  (jewelry, euphemistic) Previously owned; secondhand.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To give an estate to.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To bestow upon.
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