1. the act or fact of possessing.
2. the state of being possessed.
3. something owned or possessed.
4. wealth or property.
5. law actual holding or occupancy with or without rightful ownership.
6. A territory subject to foreign control.
7. self-control.
8. the state of being dominated by or as if by evil spirits or by an obsession.
9. sports physical control of the ball or puck by a player or team.
10. sports the condition of being on offense: the home team was in possession during most of the fourth quarter.

1. something that someone possesses, but to which he does not necessarily have private property rights.
2. something that is owned.
3. ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
4. A territory under the rule of another country.
5. the condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
6. control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
7. A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
8. to invest with property.

1. the act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
2. the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.
3. the thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion.
4. the state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy.
5. to invest with property.

1. to invest with property.
2. the act of possessing, or the state of being possessed; the having, holding, or detaining of property in one's power or control; the state of owning or controlling; actual seizing or occupancy, either rightful or wrongful. one man may have the possession of a thing, and another may have the right of property in it.
3. in law, the physical control which belongs of right to unqualified ownership; the having a thing in such manner as to exclude the control of other persons; that detention of or dominion over a thing by one person which precludes others from the adverse physical occupancy of or dominion over it.
4. the thing possessed; in the plural, goods, land, or rights owned; belongings: as, your friendship is one of my richest possessions; the french possessions.
5. hence property; wealth.
6. in international law, a country or territory held by right of conquest.
7. persuasion; conviction.
8. the state of being under the control of evil spirits or of madness; madness; lunacy: as, demoniacal possession.
9. in the terminology of psychical research, a change of mental disposition, occurring in the state of trance, so marked as to suggest the substitution of a novel personality for the known personality of the subject.

1. the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
2. being controlled by passion or the supernatural
3. a territory that is controlled by a ruling state
4. anything owned or possessed
5. the act of having and controlling property
6. a mania restricted to one thing or idea
7. (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck)