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English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman aisement, easement, eisement, esament, esement, and Middle French aisement (“comfort, convenience, ease, facility, opportunity; a benefit, relief; a right to use land, a thing, etc.; a privy”), from aisier (“to put at ease; to facilitate”) + -ment (“-ment, suffix forming nouns, usually the action or state resulting from verbs”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i?zm(?)nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?izm?nt/
• Hyphenation: ease?ment

Noun

easement (countable and uncountable, plural easements)

2. (law) The legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way).
3. (architecture) An element such as a baseboard, handrail, etc., that is curved instead of abruptly changing direction.
4. (archaic) Easing, relief.
   • 1666, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Or, A Brief and Faithful Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bvnyan, London: Printed by George Larkin, OCLC 12787585; 6th corr. edition, London: Printed for Nath. Ponder, at the Pea-cock in the Poultry, over against the Stocks-Market, 1688, OCLC 643954458, pages 92–93:

     But now, thought I, if this ?in is not unto death, then it is pardonable; therefore from this I have encouragement to come to God by Chri?t for mercy; to con?ider the promi?e of forgivene?s, as that which ?tands with open arms to receive me, as well as others. This therefore was a great ea?ement to my mind; to wit, that my ?in was pardonable, that it was not the ?in unto death, […]
5. (archaic, euphemistic) The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating.
6. (model railroading) Transition spiral curve track between a straight or tangent track and a circular curved track of a certain radius or selected radius.
7. Assistance.
8. Support.
9. Gratification.

Derived terms

• (act of relieving oneself): do one's easement, house of easement, stool of easement

Translations

Further reading

• easement (law) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tee-names