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 .

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, 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)

Property.

*1980 , John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey :

There must be a tormenting feeling of self-insufficiency in me until I can realize that my self-possession subsumes my all. I must endure my goading ambition until I can acknowledge ownership of all of my owndom .

*1895 , Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society :

Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom .

*1876 , The Musical World:

The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.

Personal belongings; possessions.

A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.

Ownership; possession.

*1894 , Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles :

The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the allodial land the Orkneys, "but the earls have held it since in fief, but never as their owndom [...]"

Control of one's self; self-mastery.