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property

noun
/ˈpɹɒp.ə.ti/UK/ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.ti/US/ˈpɹɒp.ɚ.ti/CA/ˈpɹɔp.ə.ti/

Etymology

From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietās (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Equivalent to proper + -ty. Doublet of propriety.

  1. derived from proprietās
  2. derived from propreté
  3. inherited from propertee

Definitions

  1. Something that is owned.

    • Leave those books alone! They are my property.
    • Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.).
    • A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.

  2. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.

    • There is a large house on the property.
    • He owns over ten properties in the country.

  3. Real estate

    Real estate; the business of selling houses.

    • He works in property as a housing consultant.
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.

    2. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.

      • Charm is his most endearing property.
      • Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

    3. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.

      • Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.

    4. An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class

      An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that encapsulates an underlying variable.

      • You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".

    5. A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.

      • Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.

    6. A script, book, screenplay, or the like that is on the market or has been bought for…

      A script, book, screenplay, or the like that is on the market or has been bought for commercial production as a stage play, movie, or the like.

    7. Propriety

      Propriety; correctness.

      • it is well knowne that I have the property to keepe counsaile

    8. To invest with properties, or qualities.

      • His voyce was propertied As all the tuned Spheres, and that to Friends

    9. To make a property of

      To make a property of; to appropriate.

      • Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back: I am too high-born to be propertied, To be a secondary at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument, To any sovereign state throughout the world.

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Derived

abandoned property, accidental property, antiproperty, Archimedean property, bioproperty, Bolzano-Weierstrass property, bound property, chemical property, Church-Rosser property, colligative property, community property, country property, disproperty, essential property, extensive property, generic property, greedy property, hippity hoppity get off my property, hot property, hyperproperty, identity property, immovable property, industrial property, intellectual property, intensive property, lost property, man of property, Markov property, mechanical property, metaproperty, mislaid property, movable property, nonproperty, personal property, personal property tax, physical property, private property, private property anarchism, private property anarchist, prop · +30 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for property. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA