possession

  1. Noun.  Something that is owned.
  2. Noun.  Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
  3. Noun.  A territory under the rule of another country.
  4. Noun.  The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
  5. Noun.  (sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
  6. Noun.  (linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.

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