estate of the realm
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Related to estate of the realm: real estate
- noun
Synonyms for estate of the realm
a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights
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Related Words
- social class
- socio-economic class
- stratum
- class
- first estate
- Lords Spiritual
- Lords Temporal
- second estate
- third estate
- Commons
- fourth estate
- body politic
- country
- nation
- res publica
- commonwealth
- state
- land
- Britain
- Great Britain
- U.K.
- UK
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- France
- French Republic