possession
/pəˈzɛʃn̩/
Something that is owned; A control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights; A control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive
- plural
- possessions
Meanings
- 1
Something that is owned
He lost all his possessions.
Tatoeba · MrShoval · CC BY 2.0 FR
He gave up all his possessions.
Tatoeba · Amastan · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
A control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights
- 3
A control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive
- 4
A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball
- 5
An ownership; a taking, a holding, keeping something as one's ownrare
- 6
A territory under the rule of another countryrare
- 7
The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entityrare
- 8
The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madnessrare
- 9
A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownershiprare
- 10
closure of a section of track for maintenance worksrare