• IPA: /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃt/

1. Simple past tense and past participle of establish

established

1. Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
2. Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 731:

     Anglicanism did manage to strengthen its position in the southern English American colonies after Charles II's restoration (even in cosmopolitan New York), gaining established status in six out of the eventual thirteen.

3. Of any social or economic entity: part of the establishment.
4. (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.

• estd. (abbreviation)
• (generally accepted and/or formally recognized) trite#Adjective

• German: etabliert
• Italian: accreditato

• French: établi
• Italian: stabilito
• Portuguese: estabelecido
• Spanish: establecido