stratum vs estate

estate vs stratum

stratum and estate both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stratum	Yes	No	No	No
estate	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, estate is a hyponym of stratum; that is, estate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than stratum:

stratum: people having the same social, economic, or educational status
estate: a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights

Other hyponyms of stratum include domain, world, age class, agriculture, brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, estate of the realm, the three estates, labor, labour, proletariat, working class, lower class, underclass, bourgeoisie, middle class, booboisie, commonality, commonalty, commons, peasantry, demimonde, underworld, yeomanry, caste, caste, upper class, upper crust, ninja, firing line, immigrant class, center, centre, old school, market, craft, trade, fair sex, woman, womanhood, patriciate.

stratum (noun)	estate (noun)
an abstract place usually conceived as having depth	a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights
a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling	extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
people having the same social, economic, or educational status	everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)

Difference between stratum and estate

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