property

noun
pro·per·ty
prŏʹpərdē

Something that is owned.

Example

“Leave those books alone! They are my property.”

Other meanings

A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
“There is a large house on the property.”
Real estate; the business of selling houses.
“He works in property as a housing consultant.”

Synonyms

holding

Related words

superposition property
Archimedean property
Bolzano-Weierstrass property
community property
extensive property
generic property
greedy property
immovable property
industrial property
intensive property
Markov property
movable property

Example sentences

“All intellectual property is theft from the public domain.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“The property is vacant.”
Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

Word history

From Latin "proprietās".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “property” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.