realty

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realty

  • /ˈɹiəlti/ US
  • /ˈɹɪəlti/ UK

Rhymes with (General American) -iəlti

Where it comes from

From Middle French realité (“property, possession”). Doublet of reality.

noun realties

  1. countable, uncountable Real estate; a piece of real property; land.
  2. countable, uncountable The property that goes to the heirs of the deceased, as distinguished from the personalty, which goes to the executor or administrator of the estate.
  3. countable, obsolete, uncountable Reality.
  4. countable, obsolete, uncountable Loyalty; faithfulness; fealty. O heaven! That such resemblance of the highest Should yet remain, where faith and realty Remain not
  5. countable, obsolete, uncountable Royalty.

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