second estate

American  

noun

1. the second of the three estates: the nobles in France; the lords temporal in England.

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second estate British  

noun

1. rare the nobility collectively

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Etymology

Origin of second estate

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

This second estate, an extension of land seized by King Henry III in 1265, encompasses 45,000 acres in England and Wales.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

Durazo's second estate, in the Pacific resort town of Zihuatanejo, dubbed "the Parthenon," features decorative fountains, statues and marble-and-gold bathrooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

The voice of the warriors constituted a counterbalance, or species of second estate.

From An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem by Hosmer, William H. C. (William Howe Cuyler)

I am just buying 150 acres more at Chocorua, to round off our second estate there.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William

"And they who keep their first estate shall be added upon; ... and they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever."

From Added Upon A Story by Anderson, Nephi