n.
 (pl. properties)
     - a thing or things belonging to someone.
- a building and the land belonging to it. ▸
(properties)
 shares or investments in property. 
- Law  ownership.
- a characteristic of something.
- old-fashioned term for prop2.
Etymology
  ME: from an Anglo-Norman Fr. var. of OFr. propriete, from L. proprietas, from proprius (see proper).