English Explanatory Dictionary

property

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Something that is owned.
  2. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
  3. Real estate; the business of selling houses.
  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.
  6. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
  7. An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that encapsulates an underlying variable.
  8. A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
  9. 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.
  10. A produced stage play, movie, or the like.
  11. Propriety; correctness.
verb
  1. To invest with properties, or qualities.
  2. To make a property of; to appropriate.

Pronunciation

/ˈpɹɒp.ə.ti/ /ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.ti/ [ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.ɾi] prŏʹpərdē en-us-property.ogg /ˈpɹɒp.ɚ.ti/ [ˈpɹɒp.ɚ.ɾi] /ˈpɹɔp.ə.ti/ [ˈpɹɔp.ə.ɾi] /ˈpɾɔpəɾte/ /-tɪ/ /-ti/

Word forms

property properties propretie propertying propertied

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.

Synonyms

characteristic aught belongings owndom possession property propriety land parcel prop

Related words

proper proprietary proprietor acquisition possess possessor physical property

Derived words

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 propertarian propertied propertization property bag property file property irregularity report property ladder property law propertyless property line property man property management property market property master property owner property porn property register property rights property tax property-theoretic

Translations

Western Apache: bíniʼ Arabic: مِلْكِيَّة Armenian: անշարժ գույք Azerbaijani: mülk Azerbaijani: daşınmaz əmlak Belarusian: нерухо́масць Bulgarian: имот Catalan: propietat Catalan: immoble Catalan: finca Catalan: hisenda Chinese Mandarin: 產業 /产业 Czech: nemovitost Danish: ejendom Esperanto: bieno Estonian: kinnisvara Faroese: ogn Finnish: kiinteistö Finnish: tontti Finnish: määräala Finnish: tila French: propriété Galician: propiedade German: Anwesen German: Grundbesitz German: Grundstück Greek: κτήμα Hebrew: נכס Hiligaynon: abír Hindi: संपत्ति Hindi: जायदाद Hungarian: ingatlan Hungarian: birtok Icelandic: landeign Icelandic: fasteign Interlingua: immobile Irish: réadmhaoin Irish: seilbh Italian: proprietà Italian: possesso Italian: beni immobili Japanese: 資産 Japanese: 所有地 Khmer: អចលវត្ថុ Korean: 부동산 Korean: 재산 Korean: 소유지 Macedonian: имот Malagasy: fananana Māori: papanoho Norman: propriêté Norwegian: tomt Norwegian Bokmål: eiendom Norwegian Nynorsk: eigedom Polish: posesja Polish: posiadłość Portuguese: propriedade Russian: недви́жимость Russian: со́бственность Serbo-Croatian: има́ње Serbo-Croatian: господа́рство Serbo-Croatian: по́сјед Serbo-Croatian: imánje Serbo-Croatian: gospodárstvo Serbo-Croatian: pósjed
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