real estate

Questions about real estate

What does real estate mean?

real estate means "property consisting of houses and land".

What is another word for real estate?

Close synonyms include real property, realty, immovable. 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 real estate a common word?

real estate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for real estate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.