appurtenance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ap=pur=te=nance

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."  [1913 Webster]
"The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances."  [1913 Webster]

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 right

ROGET 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.