estates general

1. 1.

   assembly of the estates of all France; last meeting in 1789

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Questions about estates general

What does estates general mean?

estates general means "assembly of the estates of all France; last meeting in 1789".

Is estates general a common word?

estates general 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.