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chattel

/ˈt͡ʃæt.l̩/

chattel noun: tangible, movable property.

Noun

chattel (plural chattels)

  1. Tangible, movable property.
    • […] although of course the firm had changed hands many times over the centuries, […] But the box has always been part of the chattels, as it were.1990, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, Corgi, page 387
  2. A slave.
    • Not all his servants and chattels are wraiths!1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring [Book 2, Chapter 1 - Many Meetings]

chattel meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

chattel in Urdu

جائیداد منقولہ

chattel in Bengali

ব্যক্তিগত সম্পত্তি

chattel in Malayalam

സ്ഥാവര ജംഗമസ്വത്ത്, വൃക്തിപരമായ വസ്തുവകകൾ, വ്യക്തിപരമായ സ്വത്ത്

chattel in Kannada

ಚರಾಸ್ತಿ, ಚರಸ್ವತ್ತು, ಸಾಮಾನು
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chattel in Vietnamese
động sản

Forms of chattel

pluralchattels

Plural of chattel: chattels

Origin of chattel

From Middle English chatel, from Old French chatel, from Medieval Latin capitāle (English capital), from Latin capitālis (“of the head”), from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”). Compare the doublet cattle (“cows”), which is from an Anglo-Norman variant. Compare also capital and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”.

Words formed from chattel

Phrases with chattel

Words that rhyme with chattel

Questions about chattel

What does chattel mean?
Chattel means tangible, movable property.
What is chattel in Urdu?
Chattel in Urdu is جائیداد منقولہ. See Chattel meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is chattel?
Chattel is a noun.
How do you pronounce chattel?
Chattel is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃæt.l̩/.
What is the plural of chattel?
The plural of chattel is chattels.

Words near chattel in the dictionary

  1. chatted shit
  2. chatted shite
  3. chatted up
  4. chattee
  5. chattees
  6. chattel
  7. chattel house
  8. chattel houses
  9. chattel paper
  10. chattel papers
  11. chattel slaveries

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chattel (page history and authors); chattel (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chattel (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chattel (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chattel (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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