property

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Something owned; a possession.
2. n. A piece of real estate: has a swimming pool on the property.
3. n. Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks.
4. n. Possessions considered as a group.
5. n. The right of ownership; title.
6. n. An article, except costumes and scenery, that appears on the stage or on screen during a dramatic performance.
7. n. A characteristic trait or peculiarity, especially one serving to define or describe its possessor.
8. n. A characteristic attribute possessed by all members of a class. See Synonyms at quality.
9. n. A special capability or power; a virtue: the chemical properties of a metal.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Any character always present in an individual or a class; an essential attribute; a peculiar quality; loosely, any quality or characteristic.
2. n. In logic, a character which belongs to the whole of a species, and to nothing else, but not to the essence or definition.
3. n. The right to the use or enjoyment or the beneficial right of disposal of anything that can be the subject of ownership; ownership; estate; especially, ownership of tangible things. In the broader sense, a right of action is property; so is a mere right to use or possess, if it be a right as against the general owner, but is usually termed special property, to distinguish it from the right of the general owner, which is termed the general property. The entire property is the exclusive right of possessing; enjoying, and disposing of a thing. See bailment, and lien, 1.
4. n. A thing or things subject to ownership; anything that may be exclusively possessed and enjoyed; chattels and land; possessions.
5. n. A thing required for some peculiar or specific use, as a tool; an accessory; specifically, in theaters, a stage requisite, as any article of costume or furniture, or other appointment, necessary to be produced in a scene (in this specific sense used also attributively).
6. n. Propriety.
7. n. Individuality; that which constitutes an individual.
8. n. A cloak or disguise.
9. n. See the adjectives.
10. n. Such right as a bailee has in the chattel transferred to him by the bailment.
11. n. Synonyms Attribute, Characteristic, etc. See quality.
12. n. Property, Effects, Chattels, Goods, Wares, Commodities, Merchandise, possessions, wealth. Property is the general word for those material things which are one's own, whether for sale or not. Effects applies to personal property, viewed as including the things even of least value. Chattels comprises every kind of property except freehold. (See the definitions of the classes real and personal, under chattel.) Goods includes a merchant's stock-in-trade, or one's movable property of any sort. Wares are manufactured articles, especially of the heavier sort, as earthenware, wooden-ware. Commodities are such movable articles as are necessities of life, and have a money value. Merchandise is the general word for articles of trade.
13. To invest with (certain) properties or qualities.
14. To make a property or tool of; appropriate.
15. n. Specifically, in old English law, chattels as distinguished from ‘estate’ (lands).

Wiktionary

1. n. Something that is owned.
2. n. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
3. n. real estate; the business of selling houses.
4. n. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
5. n. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
6. n. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
7. n. computing An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.
8. n. usually in the plural, theater An object used in a dramatic production
9. v. obsolete To invest with properties, or qualities.
10. v. obsolete To make a property of; to appropriate.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute.
2. n. An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man.
3. n. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title.
4. n. That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money.
5. n. All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites.
6. n. obsolete Propriety; correctness.
7. v. obsolete To invest which properties, or qualities.
8. v. obsolete To make a property of; to appropriate.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
2. n. any area set aside for a particular purpose
3. n. a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class
4. n. a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished
5. n. any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie