property

Meanings

Noun

• Something that is owned.
• A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
• 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.
• An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class.
• A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
• Propriety; correctness.

Verb

• To invest with properties, or qualities.
• To make a property of; to appropriate.

Origin

• From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté, from Latin proprietas ("a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property"), from proprius. Equivalent to proper + -ty. propriety.