Attribute

1. n. Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.
2. v. t. To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).
3. n. That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.
4. n. Reputation.
5. n. A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.