Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

housing estate

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English

Syllables: hous-ing es-tate
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A group of often architecturally similar buildings constructed at the same time, primarily for residential accommodation.

Example Sentences

"She suggested he was destroying all Sarkozy had achieved in proving that a traditional, Catholic, rightwing area could vote for an ethnic-minority candidate such as her, from a poor housing estate in the provinces, the Muslim child of illiterate north African parents. She vowed to "resist" Fillon."
"Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt."
"That project would mean reinstating 5½ miles of decommissioned line between Tavistock, where a new single-platform railway station would be built alongside the 750-home housing estate currently under construction, and Bere Alston."

Inflected Forms

housing estates (plural)

Phrases

council estate council housing estate sink estate industrial estate

Frequently Paired Words

council estate council housing estate sink estate industrial estate subdivision

Questions

What does housing estate mean?: A group of often architecturally similar buildings constructed at the same time, primarily for residential accommodation.

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