Dictionary Definition
have n : a person who possesses great material
wealth [syn: rich person,
wealthy
person]
Verb
1 have or possess, either in a concrete or an
abstract sense; "She has $1,000 in the bank"; "He has got two
beautiful daughters"; "She holds a Master's degree from Harvard"
[syn: have
got, hold]
2 have as a feature; "This restaurant features
the most famous chefs in France" [syn: feature] [ant: miss]
3 of mental or physical states or experiences;
"get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a
strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The
fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn:
experience, receive, get, undergo]
4 have ownership or possession of; "He owns three
houses in Florida"; "How many cars does she have?" [syn: own, possess]
5 cause to move; cause to be in a certain
position or condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me
in for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble" [syn: get, let]
6 serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have
another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
[syn: consume, ingest, take in, take] [ant: abstain]
7 have a personal or business relationship with
someone; "have a postdoc"; "have an assistant"; "have a
lover"
8 organize or be responsible for; "hold a
reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course" [syn:
hold, throw, make, give]
9 have left; "I have two years left"; "I don't
have any money left"; "They have two more years before they
retire"
10 be confronted with; "What do we have here?";
"Now we have a fine mess"
11 undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up" [syn:
experience]
12 suffer from; be ill with; "She has
arthritis"
13 cause to do; cause to act in a specified
manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got
me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa" [syn:
induce, stimulate, cause, get, make]
14 receive willingly something given or offered;
"The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I
won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present" [syn:
accept, take] [ant: refuse]
15 get something; come into possession of;
"receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the
front" [syn: receive]
16 undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She
suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock
after eating three candy bars"; "She got a bruise on her leg"; "He
got his arm broken in the scuffle" [syn: suffer, sustain, get]
17 achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70";
"The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day"
[syn: get, make]
18 give birth (to a newborn); "My wife had twins
yesterday!" [syn: give birth,
deliver, bear, birth]
19 have sex with; archaic use; "He had taken this
woman when she was most vulnerable" [syn: take] [also: has, had]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
habban.Pronunciation
- qualifier stressed /hæv/ /h
Extensive Definition
The word Possession might
refer to:
Metaphysics
- Spirit possession, belief in the control of the behavior of a living thing or natural object by a spiritual being
- Demonic possession, belief in the control of a person by the Devil or other malevolent spirit
Entertainment
- Possession (Sarah McLachlan song), a 1993 song by Sarah McLachlan on her album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
- Possession (1981 film), starring Sam Neill, Isabelle Adjani; dir. by Andrzej Zulawski
- Possession (TV series), 1985 Australian series
- Possession (2002 film), adaptation of the A. S. Byatt novel; with Aaron Eckhart and Gwyneth Paltrow
- Possession (2008 film), starring Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Possession (video game), a possibly cancelled console game
- Possession: A Romance, 1990 novel by A. S. Byatt
- "Possession", song on the 2005 Mandaryna.com2me album by the Polish singer Mandaryna
Law
- Possession (law), exclusive practical control of a thing, in the context of the legal implications of that control
Linguistics
- Possession (linguistics), grammatically expressed relationship such as control-of and ownership-of
- Inalienable possession, relationship between two objects that is irreversible
Geography
- Possession Street, Hong Kong
- Possession Point, former land form, Hong Kong
- Possession Sound, Washington state
- La Possession, French commune on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion
See also
- US Possession, soccer club on Réunion Island
- Possession Island (disambiguation)
- Possessive (disambiguation)
- Possessed (disambiguation)
have in German:
Possession
have in French:
Possession
have in Italian:
Possession
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absorb, accept, acquire, admit, affirm, allege, allow, annex, announce, annunciate, appreciate, apprehend, argue, arrange, assert, assever, asseverate, assimilate, assume, aver, avouch, avow, be acquainted with, be
apprised of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be confined, be
conscious of, be conversant with, be enfeoffed of, be exposed to,
be informed, be possessed of, be seized of, be subjected to, be
with one, bear, bear a
child, bear with, bear young, beat, beget, beguile of, bilk, bind, blink at, boast, bosom, brook, bunco, burn, buy, buy off, calve, carry, cast, catch, catch on, cause, cause to, chalk up,
cheat, cherish, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, claim, cling to, clip, cog, cog the dice, cognize, come by, come in for,
command, compass, compel, compose, comprehend, comprise, con, conceive, conceptualize, condone, connive at, constrain, contain, contend, countenance, cozen, crib, deceive, declare, defraud, deliver, demand, derive, derive from, diddle, dig, digest, discern, distinguish, do in, do out
of, drag down, draw, draw
from, drink, drive, drop, eat, embody, embosom, embrace, encompass, encounter, endure, enforce, enjoy, entertain, enunciate, euchre, experience, express, farrow, father, fathom, fawn, feel, fill, finagle, fix, flam, fleece, flimflam, foal, fob, follow, fondle, fool, force, foster, fudge, gain, get, get hold of, get the drift, get
the idea, get the picture, give birth, give birth to, go through,
gouge, grasp, gull, gyp, harbor, have a baby, have and
hold, have coming in, have in hand, have information about, have it
taped, have knowledge of, have on, have tenure of, have young, hear
of, hocus, hocus-pocus,
hold, hold on to, hug, identify, impel, include, induce, indulge, insist, involve, issue a manifesto,
keep, ken, kitten, know, know again, labor, labor under, lamb, land, lay down, learn, leave, let, lie in, litter, lubricate, maintain, make, make out, manifesto, master, meet, meet up with, meet with,
mulct, must, nail, need, nurse, nurture, oblige, obtain, occupy, organize, ought to, outfox, outreach, outsmart, overlook, overreach, own, pack the deal, partake of,
participate in, pass through, pay, peg, perceive, permit, pick up, pigeon, place, possess, practice fraud upon,
predicate, prefer to,
prehend, prepare, press, proclaim, procure, profess, pronounce, protest, pull down, pup, put, put it, put up with, read, realize, recall knowledge of,
receive, recognize, reidentify, require, restrain, retain, rook, run up against, savvy, say, scam, screw, secure, see, seize, seize the meaning, sell
gold bricks, sense, set
down, set up, shave,
shortchange,
should, sire, sop, speak, speak out, speak up,
spend, spot, square, squat, squat on, stack the cards,
stand for, stand on, stand under, state, stick, sting, stomach, submit, subsume, suffer, sustain, swindle, take, take a dive, take in, take
on, take over, tamper with, taste, tease, tell, thimblerig, throw, throw a fight, tie, tolerate, travail, treasure, treasure up, trick, undergo, understand, undo, use force upon, usucapt, victimize, whelp, wink at, wot, wot of, yean