property

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A building or piece of land that someone owns.

   There is a large house on the property.

2. 2
   noun

   A thing or things that someone owns.

   Leave those books alone — they are my property!

3. 3
   noun

   A quality or feature that something has.

   Matter can have many properties, such as colour and mass.

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.

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