housing estate

1. 1.

   a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time

   Broaderdevelopment

   Part ofresidential district

   United Kingdom

Questions about housing estate

What does housing estate mean?

housing estate means "a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time".

Is housing estate a common word?

housing estate 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.