Synonyms for property
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
Other
possession, real-estate, assets, wealth, inheritance, characteristic, holding, place, money, goods, nature, faculty
Definitions
- n. 1
A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
There is a large house on the property.
- n. 2
Something that is owned.
Leave those books alone! They are my property.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- properties → estates, lands, parcels, attributes…
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In the legal sense, property is not money, and money is not property; for property is that which has inherent value, while money, as such, has but representative value, and may or may not have intrinsic value.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- land Fifty years ago anyone could have bought the land.
- estate I know that Tom isn't a real estate agent anymore.
- parcel I paid 2,000 yen for the parcel to be sent by air.
- dimension The shadow people are spies from another dimension.
- assets Scott's job is to evaluate the assets of companies.
By length
- 4 letters
- land1
- 5 letters
- place1, money2, goods1
- 6 letters
- nature2, estate2, assets2, wealth1, parcel2
- 7 letters
- holding2, faculty3
- 9 letters
- dimension3, attribute3
- 10 letters
- possession3
- 11 letters
- inheritance4
- 14 letters
- characteristic5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (money2 = 2 syllables).