See fee simple in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "fief simple"
},
"expansion": "Old French fief simple",
"name": "uder"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old French fief simple.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "fees simple",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fees simple"
},
"expansion": "fee simple (plural fees simple)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms where the adjective follows the noun",
"parents": [
"Terms where the adjective follows the noun",
"Terms by orthographic property",
"Terms by lexical property"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English undefined derivations",
"parents": [
"Undefined derivations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with tab characters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Maori translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Law",
"orig": "en:Law",
"parents": [
"Justice",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Real estate",
"orig": "en:Real estate",
"parents": [
"Housing",
"Industries",
"Buildings",
"Home",
"Business",
"Buildings and structures",
"Society",
"Economics",
"Architecture",
"All topics",
"Social sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Art",
"Fundamental",
"Sciences",
"Culture"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 248, column 2:",
"text": "Sir, for a Cardceue he will ſell the fee-ſimple of his ſaluation, the inheritance of it, and cut th’ intaile from all remainders, and a perpetuall ſucceſsion for it perpetually.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1787, William Cowper, letter, 19 October",
"text": "It had never occurred to me that a parson has no fee-simple in the house and glebe he occupies."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will."
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"word": "absolute fee simple"
},
{
"word": "fee simple absolute in possession"
},
{
"word": "fee simple determinable"
},
{
"word": "fee simple subject to condition subsequent"
},
{
"word": "fee simple subject to executory interest"
},
{
"word": "fee simple subject to executory limitation"
}
],
"id": "en-fee_simple-en-noun-ESmMWkK7",
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"private",
"private"
],
[
"ownership",
"ownership"
],
[
"property",
"property"
],
[
"real estate",
"real estate"
],
[
"owner",
"owner"
],
[
"right",
"right"
],
[
"control",
"control"
],
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"transfer",
"transfer"
],
[
"will",
"will"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(law) The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will."
],
"topics": [
"law"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǒngjiǔ chǎnquán",
"sense": "The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate",
"word": "永久產權 /永久产权"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fēi xiànsì jìchéng dìchǎn",
"sense": "The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate",
"word": "非限嗣繼承地產 /非限嗣继承地产"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate",
"word": "rajoittamaton omistusoikeus"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate",
"word": "pānga angiangi"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"fee simple"
]
}
],
"word": "fee simple"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "fief simple"
},
"expansion": "Old French fief simple",
"name": "uder"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old French fief simple.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "fees simple",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fees simple"
},
"expansion": "fee simple (plural fees simple)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"word": "absolute fee simple"
},
{
"word": "fee simple absolute in possession"
},
{
"word": "fee simple determinable"
},
{
"word": "fee simple subject to condition subsequent"
},
{
"word": "fee simple subject to executory interest"
},
{
"word": "fee simple subject to executory limitation"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Old French",
"English terms where the adjective follows the noun",
"English terms with quotations",
"English undefined derivations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with tab characters",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"en:Law",
"en:Real estate"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 248, column 2:",
"text": "Sir, for a Cardceue he will ſell the fee-ſimple of his ſaluation, the inheritance of it, and cut th’ intaile from all remainders, and a perpetuall ſucceſsion for it perpetually.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1787, William Cowper, letter, 19 October",
"text": "It had never occurred to me that a parson has no fee-simple in the house and glebe he occupies."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will."
],
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"private",
"private"
],
[
"ownership",
"ownership"
],
[
"property",
"property"
],
[
"real estate",
"real estate"
],
[
"owner",
"owner"
],
[
"right",
"right"
],
[
"control",
"control"
],
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"transfer",
"transfer"
],
[
"will",
"will"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(law) The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will."
],
"topics": [
"law"
],
"wikipedia": [
"fee simple"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǒngjiǔ chǎnquán",
"sense": "The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate",
"word": "永久產權 /永久产权"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fēi xiànsì jìchéng dìchǎn",
"sense": "The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate",
"word": "非限嗣繼承地產 /非限嗣继承地产"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate",
"word": "rajoittamaton omistusoikeus"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "The rights and privileges of private ownership of property particularly real estate",
"word": "pānga angiangi"
}
],
"word": "fee simple"
}
Download raw JSONL data for fee simple meaning in English (3.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.