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property
English
Alternative forms
- propretie
Etymology
From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietas (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Doublet of propriety.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??.p?.ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??.p?.ti/, [?p??.p?.?i], enPR: pr??p?rt?
- Hyphenation: prop?erty
Noun
property (countable and uncountable, plural properties)
- Something that is owned.
- A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
- Synonyms: land, parcel
- 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, or the value of such a parameter.
- (usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
- Synonym: prop
- (obsolete) Propriety; correctness.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Camden to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (something owned): See Thesaurus:property
- (attribute or abstract quality of an object): See Thesaurus:characteristic
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
property (third-person singular simple present properties, present participle propertying, simple past and past participle propertied)
- (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
- 1595, Shakespeare, King John, V. ii. 79, l. 2359 - 2362
- 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.
- 1595, Shakespeare, King John, V. ii. 79, l. 2359 - 2362
References
- property at OneLook Dictionary Search
- property in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- property in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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proprietor
English
Etymology
Probably from proprietary +? -or.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???p?a??t?/
Noun
proprietor (plural proprietors, feminine proprietress)
- An owner.
- A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor.
- One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner.
- (historical) One or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration.
Hypernyms
- entrepreneur
Coordinate terms
- partner
Derived terms
- Lord proprietor
- proprietorship
- proprietress
- sole proprietor
Translations
See also
- appropriate
- corporation
- proper
- property
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