HOUSING ESTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does housing estate mean? 

• HOUSING ESTATE (noun)
  The noun HOUSING ESTATE has 1 sense:

1. a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time

  Familiarity information: HOUSING ESTATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSING ESTATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("housing estate" is a kind of...):

development (a district that has been developed to serve some purpose)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Holonyms ("housing estate" is a part of...):

community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)