'Possession' definitions:
Definition of 'possession'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of having and controlling property [syn: possession, ownership]
noun
Anything owned or possessed
noun
Being controlled by passion or the supernatural
noun
A mania restricted to one thing or idea [syn: monomania, possession]
noun
A territory that is controlled by a ruling state
noun
The trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior [syn: self-control, self-possession, possession, willpower, will power, self-command, self-will]
noun
(sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck); "they took possession of the ball on their own goal line"
Definition of 'Possession'
From: GCIDE
- Possession \Pos*ses"sion\, v. t. To invest with property. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Possession'
From: GCIDE
- Possession \Pos*ses"sion\, n. [F. possession, L. possessio.]
- 1. The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive; actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy; constructive, when he has only the right to such occupancy. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions. [1913 Webster]
- When the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. --Matt. xix. 22. [1913 Webster]
- Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. --Acts v. 1. [1913 Webster]
- The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. --Ob. 17. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession. [1913 Webster]
- How long hath this possession held the man? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To give possession, to put in another's power or occupancy.
- To put in possession. (a) To invest with ownership or occupancy; to provide or furnish with; as, to put one in possession of facts or information. (b) (Law) To place one in charge of property recovered in ejectment or writ of entry.
- To take possession, to enter upon, or to bring within one's power or occupancy.
- Writ of possession (Law), a precept directing a sheriff to put a person in peaceable possession of property recovered in ejectment or writ of entry. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'possession'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- accessories,
- acquest,
- acquire,
- acquisition,
- affluence,
- alienation,
- ally,
- aplomb,
- appointments,
- appurtenances,
- archduchy,
- archdukedom,
- assets,
- assurance,
- baggage,
- balance,
- bedevilment,
- belongings,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- body politic,
- bottomless purse,
- brain damage,
- brainsickness,
- buffer state,
- bulging purse,
- captivation,
- captive nation,
- capture,
- care,
- chattels,
- chieftaincy,
- chieftainry,
- city-state,
- claiming,
- clouded mind,
- colony,
- commonweal,
- commonwealth,
- complex,
- composure,
- compulsion,
- confidence,
- conquer,
- constraint,
- control,
- country,
- county,
- craziness,
- custody,
- daftness,
- dementedness,
- dementia,
- derangement,
- discipline,
- disorientation,
- distraction,
- domain,
- dominion,
- duchy,
- duds,
- dukedom,
- earldom,
- easy circumstances,
- effects,
- embarras de richesses,
- empery,
- empire,
- enchantment,
- entrancement,
- equability,
- equanimity,
- equilibrium,
- equipment,
- estate and effects,
- fascination,
- fixation,
- fixed idea,
- fixtures,
- folie,
- fortune,
- free city,
- furnishings,
- furniture,
- furor,
- gold,
- goods,
- grand duchy,
- guardianship,
- handsome fortune,
- hang-up,
- havings,
- hereditament,
- high income,
- high tax bracket,
- hold,
- holding,
- holdings,
- hypercathexis,
- idee fixe,
- illusion,
- impedimenta,
- incorporeal hereditament,
- independence,
- insaneness,
- insanity,
- irrationality,
- irresistible impulse,
- keeping,
- kingdom,
- land,
- lares and penates,
- level head,
- levelheadedness,
- loss of mind,
- loss of reason,
- lucre,
- lunacy,
- luxuriousness,
- madness,
- mammon,
- mandant,
- mandate,
- mandated territory,
- mandatee,
- mandatory,
- mania,
- material wealth,
- maya,
- mental deficiency,
- mental derangement,
- mental disease,
- mental disorder,
- mental disturbance,
- mental illness,
- mental instability,
- mental sickness,
- mind overthrown,
- mindsickness,
- money,
- money to burn,
- moneybags,
- monomania,
- morbid drive,
- movables,
- nation,
- nationality,
- obsession,
- obsessive compulsion,
- obtain,
- occupy,
- oddness,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- ownership,
- paraphernalia,
- pelf,
- pixilation,
- poise,
- polis,
- polity,
- possessions,
- possessorship,
- power,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- presence of mind,
- principality,
- principate,
- properties,
- property,
- proprietary,
- proprietorship,
- prosperity,
- prosperousness,
- protection,
- protectorate,
- province,
- puppet government,
- puppet regime,
- queerness,
- rabidness,
- realm,
- reasonlessness,
- reception,
- repossess,
- republic,
- restraint,
- riches,
- richness,
- ruling passion,
- satellite,
- secure,
- seize,
- self-assurance,
- self-command,
- self-confidence,
- self-conquest,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-government,
- self-mastery,
- self-possession,
- self-restraint,
- seneschalty,
- senselessness,
- settlement,
- shattered mind,
- sick mind,
- sickness,
- six-figure income,
- sovereign nation,
- spirit control,
- state,
- strangeness,
- substance,
- sultanate,
- superpower,
- take,
- taking,
- taking away,
- taking possession,
- tangibles,
- tenure,
- territory,
- theft,
- things,
- tic,
- title,
- toparchia,
- toparchy,
- trappings,
- treasure,
- tricks,
- unbalance,
- unbalanced mind,
- unsaneness,
- unsound mind,
- unsoundness,
- unsoundness of mind,
- upper bracket,
- wealth,
- wealthiness,
- well-regulated mind,
- win,
- witchery,
- witlessness
Words containing 'Possession'
- Possess,
- Possessed,
- Possessing,
- Possessive,
- Possessively,
- possessiveness,
- Chose in possession,
- Possessive case,
- Possessive pronoun,
- To give possession,
- To put in possession,
- To take possession,
- Writ of possession,
- actual possession,
- constructive possession,
- criminal possession,
- illegal possession,
- material possession,
- tangible possession,
- transferred possession,
- worldly possession,
- worldly possessions,
- Self-possessed,
- Self-possession