housing estate

noun

British

: housing development

Examples of housing estate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Most Popular Sung Tieu’s patina-ed marble mosaics of graffiti-ed East German housing estate walls, on show at Emalin’s new Helmet Row space, are well worth an in-person viewing. — Mahoro Seward, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026

Tucked into the corner of an isolated housing estate in Gloucester, England, the Podsmead Big Local is a lifeline. — Kyle Vanelli, STAT, 14 Aug. 2026

The Shipton Street End was subsequently renamed in his honour, while a road running through the housing estate that now occupies the site of York’s old stomping ground is called David Longhurst Way. — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

The latter film was a crime drama set in a Paris housing estate following the aftermath of a police killing of a 13-year-old Algerian French boy. — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 28 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for housing estate

• abbreviate
• accelerate
• accommodate
• accumulate
• acuminate
• adjudicate
• adulterate
• affiliate
• agglomerate
• agglutinate
• alleviate
• amalgamate