English noun: property |
1. | property (possession) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone |
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| Samples | That hat is my property. He is a man of property.
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| Synonyms | belongings, holding |
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| Broader (hypernym) | possession |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | church property, commonage, community property, estate, heirloom, hereditament, immovable, intellectual property, landholding, lease, letting, material possession, personal estate, personal property, personalty, private property, public property, ratables, rateables, real estate, real property, realty, rental, salvage, shareholding, spirituality, spiritualty, stockholding, stockholdings, tangible possession, things, trade-in, trust, wealth, worldly belongings, worldly goods, worldly possessions |
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2. | property (attribute) a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class |
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| Samples | A study of the physical properties of atomic particles.
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| Broader (hypernym) | attribute |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | actinism, age, analyticity, anisotropy, aroma, bodily property, body, characteristic, chemical property, compositeness, composition, concentration, connectivity, consistence, consistency, constitution, degree, device characteristic, disposition, duality, edibility, edibleness, eubstance, extension, fashion, feel, fullness, genetic endowment, grade, heredity, hydrophobicity, insolubility, isotropy, level, magnitude, make-up, makeup, manner, mellowness, mode, odor, odour, olfactory property, optics, physical composition, physical property, primality, richness, saltiness, scent, selectivity, size, smell, solubility, solvability, sound property, spatial property, spatiality, strength, style, sustainability, symmetry, tactile property, taste property, temporal property, unsolvability, vascularity, viability, visual property, wave-particle duality, way, weakness |
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3. | property (location) any area set aside for a particular purpose |
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| Samples | Who owns this place?. The president was concerned about the property across from the White House.
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| Synonyms | place |
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| Broader (hypernym) | geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | boatyard, center, centre, colony, hatchery, sanctuary |
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4. | property (cognition) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished |
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| Samples | Self-confidence is not an endearing property.
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| Synonyms | attribute, dimension |
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| Broader (hypernym) | concept, conception, construct |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | character, characteristic, feature, feature, feature of speech, lineament, quality |
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5. | property (artifact) any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie |
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| Samples | Before every scene he ran down his checklist of props.
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| Synonyms | prop |
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| Broader (hypernym) | object, physical object |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | custard pie |
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| Part meronym | mise en scene, setting, stage setting |
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