possession
IPA: pʌzˈɛʃʌn
noun
- Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
- Something that is owned.
- Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
- A territory under the rule of another country.
- The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
- The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madness.
- (sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
- (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- (linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
verb
- (obsolete) To invest with property.
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Examples of "possession" in Sentences
- They enshrined the possessions.
- The people divested the possessions.
- Alienable and inalienable possession is distinguished.
- At the time, the sandal was a possession of the crown.
- The property passed into the possession of the Hall family.