Definition of "housing estate" [housing estate]

• A group of, often architecturally similar, buildings built at the same time. Primarily for residential accommodation, estates may also include commercial facilities. (noun)

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• "MY MOTHER SOLD the riding stables, the attached house, and the meadows to a property developer, who built a housing estate where it had once been, and as part of the deal, gave her a small, detached house at the end of Seton Close."