Etimology
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.
noun
property (countable and uncountable, plural properties)
Something that is owned.
A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
(British) Real estate; the business of selling houses.
The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
(computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class.
(usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
(US) 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.
(obsolete) Propriety; correctness.
Examples
Leave those books alone! They are my property.
Important types of property include real property , personal property , and intellectual property .
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.
There is a large house on the property.
Synonyms: land, parcel
He works in property as a housing consultant.
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.
Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.
Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".
Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.
Synonym: prop
Is the property in which you are playing currently on Broadway – is it a musical?
it is well knowne that I have the property to keepe counsaile
Related words
synonyms
(something owned): See Thesaurus:property
(attribute or abstract quality of an object): See Thesaurus:characteristic
related terms
proper
proprietary
proprietor
verb
property (third-person singular simple present properties, present participle propertying, simple past and past participle propertied)
(obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
(obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
Examples
His voyce was propertied As all the tuned Spheres, and that to Friends
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.