Definizione monolingua

possession

Wikipedia possession (plural possessions)

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.

2. Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as ones own.

   The car is in my possession.

   Im in possession of the car.

3. A territory under the rule of another country.

   Réunion is the largest of Frances overseas possessions.

4. 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.

5. (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.

   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, BBC:

     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.

6. (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 elses — and one like my foot, which has inalienable possession — my foot will always be mine.

Definizione dizionario possession

	possesso
	ownership
	Il diritto di avere qualche tipo di controllo su qualsosa.
	The right of having some degree of control over something.

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possession

Altri significati:

(in one’s) possession

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

Something that is owned.

possession (by a spirit, etc.)

a territory under the rule of another country

A territory under the rule of another country.

(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.

Everything that one possesses.

The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.

something that is owned

being possessed by a demon

(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.