housing estate

noun

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Leicester have retained their former men’s training ground, Belvoir Drive, just outside the city centre, which is situated in a housing estate, and there is so far no information on the Land Registry of a sale. Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025 Angelika, a resident of the housing estate in Kharkiv’s Soviet-era Saltivka suburb, who withheld her last name, agrees with the mayor. Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Jan. 2025 Much easier on the eye elsewhere in the East Midlands is the housing estate that replaced Derby County’s Baseball Ground. Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024 To allow better access to the housing estate, these were rebuilt further apart, after the originals had been demolished in 2013. Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for housing estate 

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of housing estate was in 1904

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“Housing estate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20estate. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

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