If you are in possession of something, you have it, because you have obtained it or because it belongs to you. Those documents are now in the possession of the Guardian We should go up and take possession of the land He was also charged with illegal possession of firearms
The detention and control, or the manual or ideal custody of anything which may be the subject of property, for one's use and enjoyment, either as owner or as the proprietor of a qualified right in it, and either held personally or by another who exercises it in one's place and name Possession includes the act or state of possessing and that condition of facts under which one can exercise his power over a corporeal thing at his pleasure to the exclusion of all others persons Possession includes constructive possession which means not actual but assumed to exist, where one claims to hold by virtue of some title, without having actual custody
An altered state of consciousness in which the conscious personality of the individual is replaced with that of an other personality thought of as a possessing entity
A country's possessions are countries or territories that it controls. All of them were French possessions at one time or another. = colonies