House vs. Estate — What's the Difference?

A house is a single-unit residential building, which may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space.

An extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization.

A building for human habitation, especially one that consists of a ground floor and one or more upper storeys

All the money and property owned by a particular person, especially at death

A building in which people meet for a particular activity

A class or order regarded as forming part of the body politic, in particular (in Britain), one of the three groups constituting Parliament, now the Lords spiritual (the heads of the Church), the Lords temporal (the peerage), and the Commons. They are also known as the three estates

A religious community that occupies a particular building

A particular state, period, or condition in life

A legislative or deliberative assembly

Short for estate car

A style of electronic dance music typically having sparse, repetitive vocals and a fast beat

A landed property, usually of considerable size.

A twelfth division of the celestial sphere, based on the positions of the ascendant and midheaven at a given time and place, and determined by any of a number of methods.

One's property, both real and personal, vested and contingent, especially as disposed of in a will.

Old-fashioned term for bingo

The nature and extent of an owner's rights with respect to land or other property.

(of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings.

Chiefly British A housing development.

Relating to a firm, institution, or society

The situation or circumstances of one's life

Provide with shelter or accommodation

Social position or rank, especially of high order.

Provide space for; contain or accommodate

A major social class, such as the clergy, the nobility, or the commons, formerly possessing distinct political rights.

A structure serving as a dwelling for one or more persons, especially for a family.

The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.

A household or family.

State; condition.

Something, such as a burrow or shell, that serves as a shelter or habitation for a wild animal.

(archaic) Status, rank.

A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit

(archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions.

A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something

(obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman.

A building devoted to a particular activity

(historical) A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights (Estates of the realm).

A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public

(legal) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land.

The seating area in such an establishment

An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership.

The audience or patrons of such an establishment

The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.

A commercial firm

A housing estate.

A publishing company

A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating).

A gambling casino.

(obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

(Slang) A house of prostitution.

(computing) An organization's collective information technology resources.

A residential college within a university.

Previously owned; secondhand.

Often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.

To give an estate to.

The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.

To bestow upon.

A quorum of such an assembly.

Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.

Often House A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family

Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.

One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.

A person of high rank.

The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.

A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.

House music.

The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

To provide living quarters for; lodge

The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.

To shelter, keep, or store in a house or other structure

The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.

To fit (something) into a socket or mortise.

To establish.

(Nautical) To secure or stow safely.

Tom settle as a fortune.

To reside; dwell.

To endow with an estate.

To take shelter.

Everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities

A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use;

An apartment building within a public housing estate.

A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights

(uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations.

A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.

The people who live in a house; a household.

A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).

A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.

A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.

(historical) A workhouse.

The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.

A theatre.

(politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.

A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.

(metaphorical) A place of rest or repose.

A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.

An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.

(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.

(cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.

A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

(curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

Lotto; bingo.

(uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

A small stand of trees in a swamp.

(sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.

(music genre) House music.

(transitive) To keep within a structure or container.

(transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.

To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.

To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

(transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.

(transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.

(obsolete) To drive to a shelter.

(obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

(nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.

To eat.

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.

Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.

Those who dwell in the same house; a household.

A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel.

One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament.

A firm, or commercial establishment.

A public house; an inn; a hotel.

A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.

A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.

The body, as the habitation of the soul.

The grave.

To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.

To drive to a shelter.

To admit to residence; to harbor.

To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.

To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.

A dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families;

An official assembly having legislative powers;

A building in which something is sheltered or located;

A social unit living together;

A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented;

Members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments;

Aristocratic family line;

The members of a religious community living together

The audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema;

Play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults;

(astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

The management of a gambling house or casino;

Contain or cover;

Provide housing for;