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View synonyms for second estate
second estate
noun
- the second of the three estates: the nobles in France; the lords temporal in England. Compare estate ( def 5 ).
second estate
noun
- rare.the nobility collectively
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Word History and Origins
Origin of second estate1
First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences
This second estate, an extension of land seized by King Henry III in 1265, encompasses 45,000 acres in England and Wales.
From Washington Post
Both men keep second estates in Palm Beach, Florida, and their shared sensibilities go well beyond their mutual love of deal-making and obsession with celebrity.
From The Guardian
Purple Bricks is the second estate agent to list this year, following Hunters Property Plc.
From Reuters
The first and second estates are not fused into one, simply because they continue to deliberate and vote together as all three did at the first.
From Project Gutenberg
I am just buying 150 acres more at Chocorua, to round off our second estate there.
From Project Gutenberg
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