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Appurtenance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Appurtenance has 2 senses
- appurtenance(n = noun.artifact) gear, paraphernalia - equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.; Array is a kind of equipment
- appurtenance(n = noun.artifact) accessory, add-on, supplement - a supplementary component that improves capability; Array has particulars: auto accessory, computer accessory, fitting, fixings, trimmings
has particulars: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, rig, tackle, kit, outfit, regalia, rig, rigging, tackle, saddlery, stable gear, tack
is a kind of component, constituent, element
Derived forms verb appertain1, adjective appurtenant1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Appurtenance, n. [OF. apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain.].
That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. [1913 Webster]
"Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy."
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"The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Appurtenance, n. (usu. in pl.) a belonging; an appendage; an accessory.
Etymology
ME f. AF apurtenaunce, OF apertenance (as APPERTAIN, -ANCE)
THESAURUS
Appurtenance
accession, accessory, accident, accidental, accommodation, accompaniment, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, advantage, amenity, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appendix, appliance, appointment, appurtenant, aspect, attachment, augment, augmentation, authority, auxiliary, birthright, circumstance, claim, coda, collateral, complement, component, concomitant, conjugal right, constituent, contents, contingency, contingent, continuation, convenience, corollary, demand, detail, divine right, droit, due, element, equipment, extension, extra, extrapolation, facility, factor, faculty, feature, fixings, fixture, furnishings, furniture, happenstance, inalienable right, incidental, increase, increment, inessential, ingredient, integrant, interest, item, makings, mere chance, natural right, nonessential, not-self, offshoot, other, part, part and parcel, pendant, power, prerogative, prescription, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, proper claim, property right, reinforcement, right, secondary, side effect, side issue, specialty, subsidiary, superaddition, supplement, tailpiece, title, undergirding, unessential, vested interest, vested rightROGET THESAURUS
Appurtenance
Component
N component, component part, integral part, integrant part, element, constituent, ingredient, leaven, part and parcel, contents, appurtenance, feature, member, personnel, forming, inclusive.Accompaniment
N accompaniment, adjunct, context, appendage, appurtenance, coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship, partnership, copartnership, coefficiency, concomitant, accessory, coefficient, companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague, consort, spouse, mate, partner, co-partner, satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow, escort, cortege, attribute, accompanying, concomitant, fellow, twin, joint, associated with, coupled with, accessory, attendant, obbligato, with, withal, together with, along with, in company with, hand in hand, side by side, cheek by jowl, cheek by jole, arm in arm, therewith, herewith, and, together, in a body, collectively, noscitur a sociis, virtutis fortuna comes.
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