estate of the realm

Questions about estate of the realm

What does estate of the realm mean?

estate of the realm means "a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights".

What is another word for estate of the realm?

Close synonyms include estate, the three estates. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is estate of the realm a common word?

estate of the realm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.