Estate vs. Home — What's the Difference?
By Fiza Rafique & Maham Liaqat — Updated on May 15, 2024
An "estate" is a large property, often with significant land and grand buildings, while a "home" refers to any residence where people live, focusing on the personal and emotional connection to the place.
Difference Between Estate and Home
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Key Differences
An estate typically refers to a large, luxurious property, often encompassing extensive land and multiple buildings. It conveys a sense of grandeur and wealth. A home, however, is any place where people live, emphasizing comfort and personal attachment rather than size or opulence.
Estates are usually associated with historical significance or high social status. They often include amenities like gardens, stables, and guest houses. Homes, in contrast, vary widely in size and type, from apartments to houses, focusing on providing shelter and a personal environment.
The term "estate" often implies a level of formality and permanence, sometimes passed down through generations. Homes are more about the immediate living experience and can be temporary or permanent, bought or rented, without the connotation of long-term heritage.
In legal contexts, "estate" can also refer to all the assets owned by an individual, especially in the context of wills and inheritance. A home is primarily concerned with the physical dwelling and the living space it provides.
Estates often require significant maintenance and management, sometimes employing staff for upkeep. Homes, while they may also need maintenance, usually involve a more personal and hands-on approach by the inhabitants.
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Estates can be seen as investments and symbols of status, often appreciated for their value over time. Homes, on the other hand, are more personal and functional, focusing on the needs and daily life of the occupants.
Comparison Chart
Size and Scale
Large property with extensive land
Any size, primarily residential
Connotation
Wealth, grandeur, historical significance
Comfort, personal attachment
Legal Context
Includes all assets for inheritance
Refers to the physical residence
Maintenance
Requires significant upkeep, often with staff
Typically maintained by occupants
Social Implication
High social status and investment
Focus on daily living and shelter
Compare with Definitions
Estate
A large, grand property, often with extensive grounds.
The family estate included several acres of gardens.
Home
A place where one lives permanently or for an extended period.
She felt at peace when she was at home.
Estate
All the assets owned by a person, especially after death.
Her entire estate was left to her children.
Home
A dwelling place such as a house or apartment.
They bought a new home in the suburbs.
Estate
A large area of land owned by one person or organization.
The estate was known for its vineyards and orchards.
Home
The physical structure where people live.
Their home was cozy and inviting.
Estate
The collective property and financial assets of an individual.
The lawyer managed the estate's assets.
Home
An environment offering security and comfort.
The shelter provided a temporary home for the displaced family.
Estate
A term for a social class with significant property holdings.
The estate was passed down through generations.
Home
A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for an individual, group or family. It is a fully or semi sheltered space and can have both interior and exterior aspects to it.
Estate
An extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization.
Home
The place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household
The floods forced many people to flee their homes
I was nineteen when I left home and went to college
Estate
All the money and property owned by a particular person, especially at death
In his will, he divided his estate between his wife and daughter
Home
An institution for people needing professional care or supervision
An old people's home
Estate
A class or order regarded as forming part of the body politic, in particular (in Britain), one of the three groups constituting Parliament, now the Lords spiritual (the heads of the Church), the Lords temporal (the peerage), and the Commons. They are also known as the three estates
The unions are no longer an estate of the realm
Home
The finishing point in a race
He was four fences from home
Estate
A particular state, period, or condition in life
The holy estate of matrimony
Programmes for the improvement of man's estate
Home
Relating to the place where one lives
I don't have your home address
Estate
Short for estate car
Home
(of a sports fixture) played at the team's own ground
A home win
Their first home match of the season
Estate
A landed property, usually of considerable size.
Home
Denoting the administrative centre of an organization
The company has moved its home office
Estate
One's property, both real and personal, vested and contingent, especially as disposed of in a will.
Home
To or at the place where one lives
What time did he get home last night?
Estate
The nature and extent of an owner's rights with respect to land or other property.
Home
(of an animal) return by instinct to its territory after leaving it
A dozen geese homing to their summer nesting grounds
Estate
Chiefly British A housing development.
Home
Move or be aimed towards (a target or destination) with great accuracy
More than 100 missiles were launched, homing in on radar emissions
Estate
The situation or circumstances of one's life
A child's estate gives way to the adult's estate.
Home
Provide (an animal) with a home as a pet
Each year thousands of cats which could have been homed are being needlessly put down
Estate
Social position or rank, especially of high order.
Home
A place where one lives; a residence.
Estate
A major social class, such as the clergy, the nobility, or the commons, formerly possessing distinct political rights.
Home
The physical structure within which one lives, such as a house or apartment.
Estate
The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.
Home
A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household.
Estate
State; condition.
Home
An environment offering security and happiness.
Estate
(archaic) Status, rank.
Home
A valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.
Estate
(archaic) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions.
Home
The place, such as a country or town, where one was born or has lived for a long period.
Estate
(obsolete) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman.
Home
The native habitat, as of a plant or animal.
Estate
(historical) A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights (Estates of the realm).
Home
The place where something is discovered, founded, developed, or promoted; a source.
Estate
(legal) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land.
Home
A headquarters; a home base.
Estate
An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership.
Home
(Baseball) Home plate.
Estate
The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
Home
(Games) Home base.
Estate
A housing estate.
Home
An institution where people are cared for
A home for the elderly.
Estate
A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating).
Home
The starting position of the cursor on a text-based computer display, usually in the upper left corner of the screen.
Estate
(obsolete) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
Home
A starting position within a computer application, such as the beginning of a line, file, or screen or the top of a chart or list.
Estate
(computing) An organization's collective information technology resources.
Home
Of or relating to a home, especially to one's household or house
Home cooking.
Home furnishings.
Estate
Previously owned; secondhand.
An estate diamond; estate jewelry
Home
Taking place in the home
Home care for the elderly.
Estate
To give an estate to.
Home
Of, relating to, or being a place of origin or headquarters
The home office.
Estate
To bestow upon.
Home
(Sports) Relating to a team's sponsoring institution or to the place where it is franchised
A home game.
The home field advantage.
Estate
Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.
Home
Of, relating to, or being the keys used as base positions for the fingers in touch-typing
The home row on a standard keyboard consists of the keys for A, S, D, F, J, K, L,.
, and '.
Estate
Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.
Home
At, to, or toward the direction of home
Going home for lunch.
Estate
A person of high rank.
She's a duchess, a great estate.
Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.
Home
On or into the point at which something is directed
The arrow struck home.
Estate
A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.
See what a vast estate he left his son.
Home
To the center or heart of something; deeply
Your comments really hit home.
Estate
The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever . . . concerneth manifestly any great portion of people.
Home
To go or return to one's residence or base of operations.
Estate
The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.
Home
To guide (a missile or aircraft) to a target.
Estate
The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.
Home
To arrange to have (an animal) placed in a home.
Estate
To establish.
Home
To take (an animal) into one's home.
Estate
Tom settle as a fortune.
Home
A dwelling.
Estate
To endow with an estate.
Then would I . . . Estate them with large land and territory.
Home
One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
Estate
Everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
Home
The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
Does she still live at home? - No, she moved out and got an apartment when she was 18, but she still lives in the city.
Estate
Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use;
The family owned a large estate on Long Island
Home
The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
Estate
A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights
Home
A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home
Home
A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
A home for outcasts
A home for the blind
A veterans' home
Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home.
Home
(by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
Home
One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
Home
The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
The home of the pine
Home
A focus point.
Home
(board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.
Home
(baseball) Home plate.
Home
(lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
Home
(Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
Home
The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
Home
Clipping of home directory
Home
To return to its owner.
The dog homed.
Home
To seek or aim for something.
The missile was able to home in on the target.
Home
Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign
Home
That strikes home; direct, pointed.
A home truth
Home
(obsolete) Personal, intimate.
Home
(sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
The home end, home advantage, home supporters
Home
To one's home
Home
To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
Go home
Come home
Carry someone home
Home
To one's place of birth
Home
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length
She drove the nail home
Ram a cartridge home
Home
(internet) To the home page
Click here to go home.
Home
At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home.
I'm home!
Home
To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
Home
Into the goal
Home
(nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
Sails sheeted home
Home
See Homelyn.
Home
One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.
The disciples went away again to their own home.
Home is the sacred refuge of our life.
Home! home! sweet, sweet home!There's no place like home.
Home
One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.
Home
The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
He entered in his house - his home no more,For without hearts there is no home.
Home
The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.
Flandria, by plenty made the home of war.
Home
A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
Home
The home base; as, he started for home.
Home
Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
Home
Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
Home
In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal
Home
To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
Home
Close; closely.
How home the charge reaches us, has been made out.
They come home to men's business and bosoms.
Home
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.
Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home.
Home
To return home.
Home
To proceed toward an object or location intended as a target; - of missiles which can change course in flight under internal or external control; usually used with in on; as, the missile homed in on the radar site.
Home
To arrive at or get closer to an object sought or an intended goal; used with in on; as, the repairman quickly homed in on the cause of the malfunction.
Home
Where you live at a particular time;
Deliver the package to my home
He doesn't have a home to go to
Your place or mine?
Home
Housing that someone is living in;
He built a modest dwelling near the pond
They raise money to provide homes for the homeless
Home
The country or state or city where you live;
Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home
His home is New Jersey
Home
An environment offering affection and security;
Home is where the heart is
He grew up in a good Christian home
There's no place like home
Home
An institution where people are cared for;
A home for the elderly
Home
The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
Home
A social unit living together;
He moved his family to Virginia
It was a good Christian household
I waited until the whole house was asleep
The teacher asked how many people made up his home
Home
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score;
He ruled that the runner failed to touch home
Home
Place where something began and flourished;
The United States is the home of basketball
Home
Provide with, or send to, a home
Home
Return home accurately from a long distance;
Homing pigeons
Home
Used of your own ground;
A home game
Home
Relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are;
My home town
Home
Inside the country;
The British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior
The nation's internal politics
Home
At or to or in the direction of one's home or family;
He stays home on weekends
After the game the children brought friends home for supper
I'll be home tomorrow
Came riding home in style
I hope you will come home for Christmas
I'll take her home
Don't forget to write home
Home
On or to the point aimed at;
The arrow struck home
Home
To the fullest extent; to the heart;
Drove the nail home
Drove his point home
His comments hit home
Home
A place of residence with emotional and personal significance.
His childhood home brought back many memories.
Common Curiosities
Can an estate be considered a home?
Yes, an estate can be a home, but not all homes are estates.
Are estates usually historical?
Many estates have historical significance, but not all are old or historical.
Is an estate always large?
Typically, yes, estates are large and grand, often including multiple buildings and extensive land.
Does the term 'home' imply ownership?
No, a home can be owned or rented; it emphasizes the place where people live.
Do estates require special management?
Often, estates require significant upkeep and may employ staff for maintenance.
Can a small house be called a home?
Yes, any place where people live can be called a home, regardless of its size.
What is the main difference between an estate and a home?
An estate is a large, luxurious property often with extensive land, while a home is any residence where people live.
Is 'home' more about the structure or the feeling?
'Home' emphasizes both the physical structure and the emotional connection to the place.
Do estates have legal implications?
Yes, estates often involve legal aspects, especially in terms of inheritance and asset management.
Can the term 'estate' refer to something other than property?
Yes, in legal terms, an estate can refer to all the assets owned by an individual.
Does 'home' imply permanence?
Not necessarily; homes can be temporary or permanent residences.
Are estates considered symbols of status?
Yes, estates often symbolize wealth and high social status.
Are homes typically considered investments?
While homes can be investments, they are primarily valued for their role as living spaces.
Can the term 'estate' be used for urban properties?
Yes, though less common, urban properties can be called estates if they are large and luxurious.
Is the term 'home' used in legal contexts?
'Home' is less commonly used in legal contexts compared to 'estate.'
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