realty
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French realité (“property, possession”). Doublet of reality.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹiəlti/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɪəlti/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: (General American) -iəlti
Usage notes edit
- Pronunciation /ˈɹiləti/ is usually considered incorrect.
Noun edit
realty (countable and uncountable, plural realties)
- Real estate; a piece of real property; land.
- (law) 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.
- (obsolete) Reality.
- (obsolete) Loyalty; faithfulness; fealty.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- O heaven! That such resemblance of the highest
Should yet remain, where faith and realty
Remain not
- (obsolete) Royalty.
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Translations edit
real estate, piece of real property — see real estate