Noun

(wikipedia possession) (en noun)

Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.

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.

Ownership]]; [[take, taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.

The car is in my possession .

I'm in possession of the car.

A territory under the rule of another country.

Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .

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 .

* Shakespeare

How long hath this possession held the man?

(sports) 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 .

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Their first half was marred by the entire side playing too deep, completely unable to build up any form of decent possession once the ball left their bewildered defence.}}

(linguistics) 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.

Noun

(en noun)

Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.

* Bible, Daniel iv. 34

I praised and honoured him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion.

* Jowett

To choose between dominion or slavery.

predominance; ascendancy

* Dryden

Objects placed foremost ought have dominion over things confused and transient.

(sometimes, figurative) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.

the dominions of a king

the dominion of the passions

(historical) One of the colonies of the British Empire given self-government through the Statute of Westminster, such as Canada or Newfoundland.

(Biblical tradition) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above angels and below thrones.

* Bible, Colossians 1:16

By him were all things created whether they be thrones, or dominions , or principalities, or powers.