different between women vs property

English

Alternative forms

• See woman

Etymology

From Middle English wimmen, from Old English w?fmenn (“women”), from w?f (“female”) + menn (“men, persons, human beings”), equivalent to wife +? men. Spelling (with o) influenced by the singular; see woman for more.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?w?m?n/, /?w?m?n/, /?w?m?n/
  • Rhymes: -?m?n
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?w?m?n/, /?w?m?n/
  • Rhymes: -?m?n
• Hyphenation: wom?en
• Homophone: woman (some dialects, common in New Zealand and South Africa)

Noun

women

1. plural of woman

   Three women went for a walk.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:women.

Related terms

• women's lib
• womenfolk

Noun

women

1. Misspelling of woman.

Anagrams

• Mowen, menow

Middle English

Noun

women pl

1. Alternative form of wommen

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)

1. Something that is owned.
3. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.

   Synonyms: land, parcel

4. Real estate; the business of selling houses.

5. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
6. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
7. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
8. (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.

9. (usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.

   Synonym: prop

10. (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)

1. (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

2. (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.

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.