property
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɹɒp.ət.i/
- (General American) IPA: /ˈpɹɑp.ɚt.i/, [ˈpɹɑpɚɾi], enPR: prŏpʹərtē
property
- 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 piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land. - There is a large house on the property.
- Synonyms: land, parcel
- Real estate; the business of selling houses.
- He works in property as a housing consultant.
- The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
- An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
- Charm is his most endearing property.
- An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
- Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.
- (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".
- (usually, in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
- Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.
- Synonyms: prop
- (obsolete) Propriety; correctness.
- (something owned) seeSynonyms en
- (attribute or abstract quality of an object) seeSynonyms en
- French: propriété
- German: Eigentum, Besitz
- Italian: proprietà, beni
- Portuguese: propriedade, bem, imóvel
- Russian: иму́щество
- Spanish: propiedad, posesión, inmueble, bien
- French: propriété
- German: Anwesen, Grundbesitz, Grundstück
- Italian: proprietà, possesso, beni immobili
- Portuguese: propriedade
- Russian: недви́жимость
- Spanish: propiedad, finca, bienes, posesión, heredad, predio
- French: propriété
- German: Eigentum
- Italian: proprietà, possesso, possidenza
- Portuguese: possessão
- Russian: со́бственность
- Spanish: pertenecia
- French: propriété
- German: Eigenschaft
- Italian: proprietà, qualità
- Portuguese: propriedade, qualidade
- Russian: сво́йство
- Spanish: propiedad, cualidad
- French: propriété
- Italian: proprietà
- Portuguese: propriedade, qualidade
- Russian: сво́йство
- Spanish: propiedad
- German: Eigenschaft
- Portuguese: propriedade
- Russian: сво́йство
- French: accessoire
- German: Requisit
- Portuguese: acessório
property (properties, present participle propertying; past and past participle propertied)
- (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
- (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
- 1595, Shakespeare, King John (play), V. ii. 79, l. 2359 - 2362
- 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.
- 1595, Shakespeare, King John (play), V. ii. 79, l. 2359 - 2362
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