Noun
a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time
Source: WordNetI was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. Nina Bawden
A boy has died after falling down a hole in a building site close to a housing estate. Source: Internet
Along with neighbouring new development Callaghan drive (named after James Callaghan ), it formed part of a large housing estate developed since the 1960s where all streets were named after former prime ministers or senior parliamentary figures. Source: Internet
But rather than settle for a cramped inner-city apartment on their budget they are preparing to build a four-bedroom home at the Armstrong housing estate at Mount Duneed, 10 kilometres south of Geelong. Source: Internet
The Costa Short Story Award-winner’s offering – out in paperback next week – is inspired by Holland’s Biljmer disaster; when a cargo plane crashed into a housing estate in 1992. Source: Internet
As Fiona in the hit series she became all too familiar with the travails of life on a tough Manchester housing estate. Source: Internet