Possession

Noun

 * 1) Something that is owned.
 * The car quickly became his most prized possession.
 * I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
 * 1) Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
 * The car is in my possession.
 * I'm in possession of the car.
 * 1) A territory under the rule of another country.
 * Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 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.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:property
 * See also Thesaurus:property

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

Etymology
From possessio (Gen: possessionis)

Translations

 * Catalan: possessió, propietat
 * Esperanto: posedaĵo
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Polish: ,


 * Romanian: posesie, proprietate
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: posesión


 * Catalan: propietat, possessió
 * Dutch:, bezittingen
 * Hungarian: birtoklás
 * Italian:


 * Mandarin:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: posesiune, proprietate, stăpânire, drept de proprietate
 * Russian: обладание, владение


 * Catalan: possessió
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: posiadłość


 * Romanian: stăpânire, posesie
 * Russian: владения, зависимая территория


 * Catalan: possessió
 * Dutch: bezetenheid
 * Hungarian: megszállottság
 * Indonesian: kerasukan, kesurupan


 * Polish: opętanie
 * Romanian: demonism, demonie, posesiune
 * Russian: одержимость


 * : απόκτηση (apóktisi) (1), κτήση (ktísi)  (1, 3), κατοχή (katoçí)  (1, 3, 4), απόκτημα (apóktima), κτήμα (ktíma) , περιουσιακό στοιχείο (periusiakó stiçío)  (2), νομή (nomí)  (3), δαιμονισμός (ðemonizmós)  (4)
 * : possession
 * : possession


 * : possesso
 * : possessão
 * : posesión
 * : ägande

Noun

 * 1) possession

Etymology
From possessionem (nominative of possessio)