Definitions for possession

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possession pos·ses·sion

Spelling: [puh-zesh-uh n]

IPA: /pəˈzɛʃ ən/

Possession is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in possession (einoopssss).

Definitions for possession

noun

1. the act or fact of possessing.
2. the state of being possessed.
3. ownership.
4. Law. actual holding or occupancy, either with or without rights of ownership.
5. a thing possessed:
6. possessions, property or wealth.
7. a territorial dominion of a state.
8. Sports. physical control of the ball or puck by a player or team: the right of a team to put the ball into play:
9. control over oneself, one's mind, etc.
10. domination, actuation, or obsession by a feeling, idea, etc.
11. the feeling or idea itself.

Origin of possession

1300-50; Middle English Latin possessiōn- (stem of possessiō) occupancy, act of occupying, equivalent to possess(us), past participle of possidēre to have in one's control, occupy (and, in ac

Examples for possession

On the invasion of William, as we have seen, it was in the possession of Edwin, sovereign of Deira.

If we begin to see the other as our possession and commodity, our shoe, the shadow of our shadow, is there ever a happy outcome?

“We were finding people in possession of thousands of paper prescriptions,” he said.

Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers.

He was a farmer's son, and seldom had any money in his possession.

They fought each other for the possession of this wonderful land.

There are consciousnesses of lack which carry more bliss than any possession.

When detectives raided her store and found the silk in her possession, they arrested her.

Had they still been in his possession, that would have been some compensation.

By the same token, maybe we need different words for possession.