personal estate

1. 1.

   movable property (as distinguished from real estate)

   Synonymspersonal propertypersonaltyprivate property

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Questions about personal estate

What does personal estate mean?

personal estate means "movable property (as distinguished from real estate)".

What is another word for personal estate?

Close synonyms include personal property, personalty, private property. 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 personal estate a common word?

personal 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.