possession🔊

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.

(obsolete) To invest with property.