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Property

noun

(pl. properties)

Something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone. Synonyms: belongings, holding. "He is a man of property"

A basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class.

Any area set aside for a particular purpose. Synonym: place. "The president was concerned about the property across from the White House"

A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished. Synonyms: attribute, dimension.

Any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie. Synonym: prop.

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"Property" Quotes from Famous Books

... at reading faces, he might see that remarks about him were considered quite too much her own personal property to be repeated to anybody in the world but himself. Wych Hazel sat silent, stirring ...

— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner

... all he could say was, that they had held it 'for many grandfathers back, longer than anyone knew.' The salary was only L10 a-year till his father's time, when it was raised to L20; yet I should suppose that the office is a rather productive one, as the family have accumulated some property. ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby

... the bitter strife aroused by the breaking of the Concordat and the seizure of the property of the Church was slowly crystallizing into an icy hatred, the worst in the world, the hatred of a man who has been robbed. The Church Separation Law may have been right in theory, and with the liberal tendencies of the reformers one may have every sympathy, but the fact remains that the sale ...

— A Volunteer Poilu • Henry Sheahan

... Also to ask him to make us good. That, too, must be a part of worshipping a good God. For the very property of goodness is, that it wishes to make others good. And if God be good, he must wish to make ...

— The Good News of God • Charles Kingsley

... really quite strangely, while he stood there, as if she had told him where he could go and get it. With which, none the less, it was apparently where he wouldn't find her—and what was there, after all, of nutritive in the image of Newton Winch? He made up his mind in a moment that it owed that property, which the pretty girl had somehow made imputable, to the fact of its simply being just then the one image of anything known to him that the terrible place had to offer. Nothing, he a minute later reflected, could ...

— The Finer Grain • Henry James

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