Treasure vs Possession - What's the difference?
treasure | possession |
(uncountable) A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) Chapter 20
(countable) Anything greatly valued.
* Bible, Exodus xix. 5
* 1681 , (Nahum Tate), (The History of King Lear)
* 1946 , (Ernest Tubb), Filipino Baby
(countable)
* 1922 , (Francis Rufus Bellamy), A Flash of Gold
(of a person or thing) To consider to be precious.
* 19th century , (Eliza Cook),
To store or stow in a safe place.
* 1825 , (Walter Scott),
Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
Something that is owned.
Ownership]]; [[take, 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.
* Shakespeare
(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
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(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
As nouns the difference between treasure and possession
is that treasure is a collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc while possession is control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.As verbs the difference between treasure and possession
is that treasure is to consider to be precious while possession is to invest with property.treasure
English
Alternative forms
* treasuer (chiefly archaic)Noun
- "Now," resumed Silver, "here it is. You give us the chart to get the treasure' by, and drop shooting poor seamen and stoving of their heads in while asleep. You do that, and we'll offer you a choice. Either you come aboard along of us, once the ' treasure shipped, and then I'll give you my affy-davy, upon my word of honour, to clap you somewhere safe ashore.
- Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me.
- I found the whole to answer your Account of it, a Heap of Jewels, unstrung and unpolisht; yet so dazling in their Disorder, that I soon perceiv'd I had seiz'd a Treasure .
- She's my Filipino baby she's my treasure and my pet
- Her teeth are bright and pearly and her hair is black as jet
- "Hello, Treasure ," he said without turning round. For a second she hesitated, standing in the soft light of the lamp, the deep blue of the rug making a background for her, the black fur collar of her coat framing the vivid beauty of her face.
Verb
(treasur)- Oh, this ring is beautiful! I’ll treasure it forever.
- I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare
- To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ?
- I've treasured it long as a sainted prize ;
- I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs.
- The rose-buds, withered as they were, were still treasured under his cuirass, and nearest to his heart.
Derived terms
* buried treasure * intreasure * national treasure * treasure chest * treasure flower * treasure house * treasure hunt * treasure map * treasure ship * treasure trove * treasurable * treasurer * treasuress * treasureless * treasurelike * treasury * untreasureAnagrams
*possession
English
Noun
(wikipedia possession) (en noun)- The car quickly became his most prized possession .
- I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
- The car is in my possession .
- I'm in possession of the car.
- Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .
- Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession .
- How long hath this possession held the man?
- The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession .
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- 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.
