Property

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English

Noun

Property (countable and uncountable; plural properties)
  1. Something that is owned.
    Leave those books alone! They are my property.
  2. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
    There is a large house on the property.
    Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.).
  3. real estate; the business of selling houses.
    He works in property as a housing consultant.
  4. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
  5. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
    Charm is his most endearing property
  6. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
    Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.
  7. (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.
    You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".
  8. (usually in the plural, theater) An object used in a dramatic production
    Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking

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Adjectives for Property

toxic; consular; medicinal; sonorous; outcropped; curative; beneficial; stimulating; private; extensive; desired; elaborate; inalienable; injurious; historical; magnetic; virgin; intellectual; inherent; structural; mechanical; business; essential; surplus; immense; profitable; defunct; physical; admirable; tonic; virtuous; airy; violent; ultimate; poisonous; permanent; living; distinctive; landed; deliquescent; exclusive; health-giving; contested; luminous; papal; adjacent; unpredictable; ice-melting; acid-resisting; agreeable; specific; absolute; phonetic; substantial; acoustic; immutable; unentailed; nutritious; clinging; ancestral; existing; emollient.

Verbs for Property

acquire—; allocate—; assess—; confiscate—; deplete—; deprive of—; destine to—; destroy—; exalt—; expropriate—; fence—; guard—; inherit—; insure—; levy on—; liquidate—; retain—; saddle—; squander—; transfer—; —abuts; —includes.

Thesaurus

acreage, acres, adverse possession, affection, affluence, alodium, aroma, assets, attribute, available means, badge, balance, banner, belongings, blackface, body-build, bottomless purse, brand, bulging purse, burgage, cachet, capital, capital goods, capitalization, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, chattels, chattels real, claim, clown white, colony, complexion, composition, configuration, constituents, constitution, costume, crasis, cut, de facto, de jure, demesne, dependency, derivative title, device, dharma, diathesis, differentia, differential, disposition, distinctive feature, domain, dominion, earmark, easy circumstances, effects, embarras de richesses, estate, ethos, feature, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiber, fiefdom, figure, flavor, fortune, frame, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, fund, gavelkind, gear, genius, gold, grain, greasepaint, grist, grounds, gust, habit, hallmark, handsome fortune, having title to, high income, high tax bracket, hold, holding, holdings, honor, hue, humor, humors, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ilk, image, impress, impression, independence, index, indicant, indicator, individualism, insignia, keynote, kind, knight service, land, landed property, lands, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, lineaments, liquid assets, lot, lots, lucre, luxuriousness, makeup, mammon, mandate, mannerism, manor, mark, marking, material wealth, means, measure, messuage, mold, money, money to burn, moneybags, nature, note, occupancy, occupation, oddity, odor, opulence, opulency, original title, owning, paraphernalia, parcel, particularity, peculiarity, pelf, physique, picture, plat, plot, possessing, possession, possessions, possessorship, practical piece, praedium, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, prop, property rights, proprietary, proprietary rights, proprietorship, prosperity, prosperousness, quadrat, quality, quiddity, quirk, real estate, real property, realty, representation, representative, resource, resources, riches, richness, savor, seal, seisin, shape, sigil, sign, signal, signature, singularity, six-figure income, smack, socage, somatotype, sort, specialty, spirit, squatting, stamp, streak, stripe, sublease, substance, suchness, supply, sure sign, symptom, system, taint, tang, taste, telltale sign, temper, temperament, tenancy, tenantry, tendency, tenements, tenor, tenure, tenure in chivalry, theatrical makeup, title, toft, token, tone, trait, treasure, trick, type, underlease, undertenancy, upper bracket, usucapion, vein, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, virtue, way, wealth, wealthiness, worth

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈpɹɒ.pə(ɹ).ti/
  • (US) enPR: prŏpʹərtēˌ, IPA: [ˈpɹɑpɚtiː]
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  • Hyphenation: prop‧erty

Etymology

From Middle English /Anglo-Norman proprete < Middle French propreté < Old French propriete (modern propriété), itself < Latin proprietas < proprius 'own'.

Translations

something owned
piece of real estate
exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing
attribute or abstract quality associated with an object, individual or concept
an attribute characteristic of a class of objects
an object used in a dramatic production
computing: an editable parameter associated with an application, or its value
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