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estado — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • estate noun A large area of land, usually with a big house, owned by one person or family.
  • nation noun A large group of people who share a common history, culture, language, or identity, often but not always tied to a specific country.
  • polity noun Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
  • shape noun The outline or form of something, defined by its outer edges or surface.
  • state noun The particular condition someone or something is in at a given time.
  • status noun The current state or condition of something at a given moment.

Senses

estado is used for these senses in English:

  • nation (international, _, legal, metonymically) A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymically, proscribed) a country.
  • polity (political science, countable) A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.
  • shape The status or condition of something
  • shape Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
  • status A situation or state of affairs.

estate — full definition

  1. noun A large area of land, usually with a big house, owned by one person or family.
  2. noun Everything a person owns — money, property, and possessions — especially as dealt with after their death.
  3. noun British: a residential area built as a planned development, or a station wagon-style car (estate car).

nation — full definition

  1. noun A large group of people who share a common history, culture, language, or identity, often but not always tied to a specific country.
  2. noun A country, especially as a political and territorial unit.

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