Property meaning
The properties of a chemical compound.
An example of property is a person's house.
A compound with anti-inflammatory properties.
Common property.
There is a large house on the property. Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.).
You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".
Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.
Origin of property
- Middle English from Old French propriete from Latin proprietās ownership (translation of Greek idiotēs) from proprius one's own per1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English /Anglo-Norman proprete, from Middle French propreté, from Old French propriete (modern propriété), itself, from Latin proprietas, from proprius 'own'.
From Wiktionary