movable

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
adjective (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
adjective capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another

From Old French movable. By surface analysis, move + -able.

Mebles: movables, furniture, &c.; French, “meubles.” 5. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer
Everything movable was swept away like bits of paper. — Blown to Bits; or, The Lonely Man of Rakata, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Such are the movables of a "rancho" in the tierra caliente. — The Rifle Rangers, Mayne Reid

chattel, personal chattel

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