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/rˈiəlti/ /rˈɪlɪtˌi/ /rˈilti/ Listen

noun

Realty n.

Royalty. (Obs.)

Loyalty; faithfulness. (R.)

Realty n.

Reality. (Obs.)

(Law)

(a)

Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; so written in legal language for reality.

(b)

Real estate; a piece of real property.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Realty" Quotes from Famous Books

... morning with gayer spirits than this party, when we saw the clouds had rolled away, and when someone repeated, "On the road to Mandilay, where the flying fishes play" (while we watched the flying fishes play), all the old familiar quotations took on a new significance of realty. ...

— The Log of the Empire State • Geneve L.A. Shaffer

... "It's his own note, and not the Trust Company's; and I'll wager you he's hard up for cash. There was a big realty company that failed the other day, and I saw that Ryder was one of the stockholders. And he's been hit by that Mississippi Steel slump, and I'll wager you he's scurrying around to raise money. ...

— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair

... bought land and slaves, and was a large owner of both in his day. He was a cautious and judicious purchaser of realty. The court records show that at some time or other he was the owner of the most desirable parts of Fentress county. He held title to the land upon which Jamestown, the county seat, now stands, which is the "Obedstown" of Mark Twain's "Gilded Age." ...

— Sergeant York And His People • Sam Cowan

... again. He thought of his realty interests in town, as they lay exposed to spoliation, to confiscation. "I am afraid I shall not be a reformer," he ...

— Under the Skylights • Henry Blake Fuller

... last evening to Mr. and Mrs. Dallam Wybrant, at their palatial mansion on Chickasaw Drive, in the new Beechmont Park Realty Development tract, an infant daughter, their first-born. Mother and child both doing well; the proud papa reported this morning as being practically out of danger and is expected to be entirely recovered shortly, ...

— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

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