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say it: i-STAYT
estate is a noun meaning "everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities". It is pronounced /ɪˈsteɪt/ — i-STAYT. It carries 3 recorded senses.
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
“the family owned a large estate on Long Island”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for estate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.