different between residence vs property
residence
English
Etymology
From Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from resid?ns, present participle of reside?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???z.?.d?ns/
Noun
residence (countable and uncountable, plural residences)
- The place where one lives; one's home.
- A building used as a home.
- The place where a corporation is established.
- The state of living in a particular place or environment.
- 1713, The History of the Common Law of England, Sir Matthew Hale (jurist), Google Books, page 87
- The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
- 1713, The History of the Common Law of England, Sir Matthew Hale (jurist), Google Books, page 87
- Accommodation for students at a university or college.
- The place where anything rests permanently.
- subsidence, as of a sediment
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
- 1638, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon on Gunpowder Treason
- waters of a muddy residence
- 1638, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon on Gunpowder Treason
- (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura
Related terms
- reside
- residency
- resident
- residential
Translations
Further reading
- residence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- residence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- residence at OneLook Dictionary Search
Middle French
Noun
residence f (plural residences)
- residence (place where one resides)
Old French
Alternative forms
- residance
- residense
Noun
residence f (oblique plural residences, nominative singular residence, nominative plural residences)
- residence (place where one resides)
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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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