SECOND ESTATE Definition & Meaning

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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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Origin of second estate¹

First recorded in 1930–35

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This second estate, an extension of land seized by King Henry III in 1265, encompasses 45,000 acres in England and Wales.

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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.

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Purple Bricks is the second estate agent to list this year, following Hunters Property Plc.

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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.

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I am just buying 150 acres more at Chocorua, to round off our second estate there.

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