Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Possession

Nouns
  • possession, seizin [Law], seisin [Law]
  • ownership etc. Property
  • occupancy
  • hold, holding
  • tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency
  • villenage, villeinage
  • socage, chivalry, knight service. exclusive possession, impropriation, monopoly, retention etc. Retention
  • prepossession, preoccupancy
  • nine points of the law
  • corner, usucaption. future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee, seigniority
  • primogeniture, ultimogeniture. futures contract [right of future possession
  • financial instruments], warrant, put, call, option
  • right of first refusal. bird in hand, chose in possession.
Verbs
  • possess, have, hold, occupy, enjoy
  • be possessed of etc. adj.
  • have in hand etc. adj.
  • own etc. Property
  • command. inherit
  • come to, come in for. engross, monopolize, forestall, regrate, impropriate, have all to oneself
  • corner
  • have a firmhold of etc. (retain) Retention
  • get into one's hand etc. (acquire) Acquisition. belong to, appertain to, pertain to
  • be in one's possession etc. adj.
  • vest in.
Adjectives
  • possessing etc. v.
  • worth
  • possessed of, seized of, master of, in possession of
  • usucapient
  • endowed with, blest with, instinct with, fraught with, laden with, charged with. possessed etc. v.
  • on hand, by one
  • in hand, in store, in stock
  • in one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession
  • at one's command, at one's disposal
  • one's own etc. (property) Property. unsold, unshared.