possessions
- 1Plural of possession.
The soldiers were ordered to leave their personal possessions behind.
Among her most treasured possessions was a watch that belonged to her grandfather.
Note
The plural gathers up the concrete side of possession: the things a person owns, taken together, as in personal or worldly possessions. It can also count territories ruled by another country, such as a nation's overseas possessions. The abstract senses (control, ownership itself, or being possessed by a demon or by strong emotion) mostly stay in the singular, so possessions rarely means several acts of owning.
possessions is a form of possession
possession, noun: Ownership; the act or state of taking, holding, or keeping something as one's own. Full entry
- Forms
- possessionpossessions plural
- Spelling
- possession → possessions: add -s
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