possessions

Meaning of possessions

noun
  1. Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
  2. Something that is owned.
    I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
  3. Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
    I'm in possession of the car.
  4. A territory under the rule of another country.
    Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions.
  5. The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
    Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession.
  6. The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madness.
  7. Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
    The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession.
  8. A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
  9. A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
    Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable possession — my foot will always be mine.

Information about possessions

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of possessions is: possession.
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Hyphenation of possessions

pos-ses-sions

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • possessions is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

possessions synonyms

Meaning :

retention

possessions antonyms

Meaning :

absence

Words that rhyme with possessions

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