Bowery vs. Estate

Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.

(archaic) In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.

Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.

Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.

Example: ‘A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.’;

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

A farm or plantation with its buildings.

Example: ‘The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing."’;

a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts

like a bower; leafy and shady;

Example: ‘a bowery lane’;

The Bowery () is a street and neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street in the north.

The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.

State; condition.

(archaic) Status, rank.

(archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions.

(obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman.

(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).

(legal) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land.

An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership.

The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.

A housing estate.

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).

(obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

Previously owned; secondhand.

Example: ‘an estate diamond; estate jewelry’;

To give an estate to.

To bestow upon.

Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.

Example: ‘Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.’;

Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.

Example: ‘God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.’;

A person of high rank.

Example: ‘She's a duchess, a great estate.’; ‘Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.’;

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.

Example: ‘See what a vast estate he left his son.’;

The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

Example: ‘I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever . . . concerneth manifestly any great portion of people.’;

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.

Example: ‘Then would I . . . Estate them with large land and territory.’;

everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities

extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use;

Example: ‘the family owned a large estate on Long Island’;

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

an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization.

an area of land and modern buildings developed for residential, industrial, or commercial purposes

Example: ‘Lucy and Tony live on an estate in West London’; ‘an industrial estate’; ‘a housing estate’;

a property where coffee, rubber, grapes, or other crops are cultivated

Example: ‘large coffee estates’; ‘L'Ormarin's wine estate’;

all the money and property owned by a particular person, especially at death

Example: ‘in his will, he divided his estate between his wife and daughter’;

a class or order regarded as forming part of the body politic, in particular (in Britain), one of the three groups constituting Parliament, now the Lords spiritual (the heads of the Church), the Lords temporal (the peerage), and the Commons. They are also known as the three estates

Example: ‘the unions are no longer an estate of the realm’;

a particular class or category of people in society

Example: ‘the spiritual welfare of all estates of men’;

a particular state, period, or condition in life

Example: ‘the holy estate of matrimony’; ‘programmes for the improvement of man's estate’;

short for estate car