real estate

See also: real-estate

English

Etymology

Estate that is real, in the legal sense of "relating to immovable tangible property". This sense of the word ultimately goes back to Latin, where reālis could be used similarly.

Pronunciation

enPR: /rēl' əstāt"/, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːl əˌsteɪt/

Noun

real estate (uncountable)

Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground they are built on.
(informal) Space used for a particular purpose.
- 1982, J. A. Kraulis, Ontario‎, page 6:
  The "Golden Horseshoe", the commercial and industrial end of Lake Ontario, is the most crowded real estate in Canada.
- 2007, Preston Gralla, Big Book of Windows Hacks
  Virtual desktops allow you to stretch your screen real estate well beyond its normal size.

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Antonyms

Derived terms

real-estate

Related terms

realtor

Translations

property that cannot easily be moved

Arabic: عَقَار‎ m (ʿaqār)
Armenian: անշարժ գույք (hy) (anšarž guykʿ)
Bashkir: күсемһеҙ мөлкәт (küsemheð mölkät)
Belarusian: нерухо́масць f (njeruxómascʹ)
Burmese: ထာဝရဥစ္စာ (my) (htawa.ra.ucca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不動產 (zh), 不动产 (zh) (bùdòngchǎn), 房地產 (zh), 房地产 (zh) (fángdìchǎn)
Czech: nemovitost (cs) f
Danish: fast ejendom c
Dutch: onroerend goed (nl) n, immobiliën (nl) m pl
Estonian: kinnisvara
Finnish: kiinteistö (fi), maaomaisuus (fi)
French: immeuble (fr) m, bien immeuble (fr) m
Galician: ben inmóbel m, ben raíz m
Georgian: უძრავი ქონება (uʒravi koneba)
German: Immobilie (de) f
Greek: ακίνητο (el) n (akínito), ακίνητη περιουσία (el) f (akíniti periousía)
Hebrew: נכסי דלא ניידי‎ m pl (nikhséi deló naydéy), (acronym) נדל״ן‎ m pl (nadlán)
Hindi: भू-संपदा f (bhū-sampdā)
Hungarian: ingatlan (hu)
Icelandic: fasteign (is) f

Ido: terhavajo, imoblo (io)
Italian: bene immobile m
Japanese: 不動産 (ja) (ふどうさん, fudōsan)
Korean: 부동산 (ko) (budongsan) (不動產 (ko))
Macedonian: (for a particular property) недвижнина f (nedvížnina), недвижност f (nédvížnost), (real estate in general) недвижнини pl (nedvížnini), недвижности pl (nedvížnosti)
Norwegian: fast eiendom
Polish: nieruchomość (pl) f
Portuguese: imóvel (pt) m
Romanian: imobil (ro) n
Russian: недви́жимость (ru) f (nedvížimostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: nekretnine (sh) f pl
Slovak: nehnuteľnosť f
Slovene: nepremičnine f pl
Spanish: bien inmueble m bien raíz (es) m
Swedish: fast egendom (sv) c, fastighet (sv) c
Tagalog: pingkas
Thai: อสังหาริมทรัพย์ (th) (à-sǎng-hǎa-rí-má-sáp)
Ukrainian: нерухо́мість f (neruxómistʹ)
Vietnamese: bất động sản (vi)

space used for a particular purpose

Chinese:
Mandarin: 地方 (zh) (dìfang), 空間 (zh), 空间 (zh) (kōngjiān), 餘地, 余地 (zh) (yúdì)
Finnish: tila (fi), alue (fi)

Greek: διαθέσιμος χώρος m (diathésimos chóros), χώρος (el) m (chóros)
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