property

Definition

  • noun: something that is owned by a person, business, etc.
  • noun: a quality or trait belonging and especially peculiar to an individual or thing
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: attribute, ownership, title

Examples

  • the protection of 'intellectual property' rights [=the rights of a person who has thought of or invented something that other people want to use, profit from, etc.]

  • The library is 'public property'. [=the library is owned by the city, town, or state]

  • We are not responsible for the loss of 'personal property'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) the very faculty of eyes and ears Yet I, a dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause And can say nothing. No, not for a king... ...upon whose property and most dear life a damned defeat was made Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? Why, I should take it. (..)
    2015 Hamlet
  • (..) For out of doors he went without their help, and to the last bended their light on me This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property fordoes itself and leads the will... ...to desperate undertakings as oft as any passion under heaven that does afflict our natures What, have you given him (..)
    2015 Hamlet