housing estate
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- noun
- /ˈhaʊzɪŋ ɪˈsteɪt/
- UK
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urbanización
- Many families are living in a new housing estate on the outskirts of the city.
- a public housing estate
- London housing estate
And I was in the North East of England on quite a rough housing estate with lots of poverty and crime and the like.
- And I was in the North East of England on quite a rough housing estate with lots of poverty and crime and the like.
- But I have also done it in a car on a housing estate right in front of a house.
Examples
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And I was in the North East of England on quite a rough housing estate with lots of poverty and crime and the like.
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Property firm Pinnacle, for example, has started a project on one of its housing estates in Hackney that funds opportunities for local NEETs.
Academic text (2009) -
I write about life on a social housing estate.
Blog text (15) -
Housing estates and strip commercial development have also developed along the main roads to the south of the city center.
Academic text (2017) -
Because the sample was drawn from public housing estates, the respondents' socioeconomic backgrounds were largely middle and lower middle class.
Academic text (1996) -
I was a housing officer on a notorious housing estate, working for the local authority for eight years, so I have lots of inspiration as I've lived the job.
Blog text (15) -
Earlier in Glasgow, the 19-year-old was greeted like a pop star as he arrived in one of the city's most deprived housing estates.
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In 1950, the city of St. Louis, MO, commissioned architect Minoru Yamasaki's firm to build a high-rise public housing estate.
Blog text (20) -
The residential pattern for these generally lower-status households is characterized by extreme concentration, though not focused on inner-city, low-quality housing; instead, the large tracts of housing where they dominate the population are in the outer suburbs, in many cases on large state housing estates.
Academic text (2008) -
Born in Bombay, a former teacher in the East End, and currently director of programming for Channel 4 (England's alternative television station), Dhondy is only one of several current writers looking at the world of Southall street life and the working-class Asian youths of the housing estates.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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An area of land made into many house lots that form a planned neighborhood
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Part of a town where people live in houses or apartments
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3.1
An area with many similar homes built together and run as one community
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A group of similar houses built together as a new neighborhood
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An area of a town or city with mostly houses and apartments
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a group of houses forming a planned residential area' is directly derivable from combining 'housing' (accommodation/buildings) with 'estate' (landed property/area). This is a regular, compositional noun compound (common in English and paralleled in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Housing estate comes from the idea of one large piece of land, an estate, where a builder put up many housing units at the same time. That's why today it means 'a group of houses built together'.