property

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Something that is owned.
2. (countable, uncountable) A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
3. (British, countable, uncountable) Real estate; the business of selling houses.
4. (countable, uncountable) The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
5. (countable, uncountable) An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
6. (countable, uncountable) An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
7. (countable, uncountable) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that encapsulates an underlying variable.
8. (countable, plural-normally, uncountable) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
9. (US, countable, uncountable) 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. (US, broadly, countable, rare, uncountable) 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.
11. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Propriety; correctness.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
2. (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɹɒp.ə.ti/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: propertee

In summary

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

estate

wealth

quality

belongings

possession

assets

possessions

attribute

characteristic

nature

ownership

feature

goods

fortune

farm

riches

land

capital

ranch

real estate

character

things

asset

money

💸

substance

holding

trait

treasure

effects

thing

realty

proprietorship

means

calibre

articles

belonging

premises

prop

material

domain

virtue

disposition

capacity

stock

place

peculiarity

performance

resource

personal effects

manor

Translations

propriété

propiedad

proprietà

Eigentum

propriedade

Eigenschaft

eigenschap

własność

Besitz

qualité

ιδιοκτησία

propietat

possession

eigendom

possesso

Sentences

This is the " minimality property " of the Jordan decomposition .