(grammar) case used to express direct possession, ownership, origin, etc. Though similar in many ways to the genitive case, it is not always the same. Languages that have the possessive case include English and Quenya.

(grammar) A determiner used to demonstrate the possession of the thing referenced by the following noun; in English, they include my, his, her, our, your, its and their.

(law) A means of acquiring title to another's real property without compensation by occupying the property in a manner that has under common law the requirements of being actual, open and notorious, exclusive, hostile, under cover of claim or right, and continuous for a certain number of years.

(grammar) Two or more consecutive nouns in the possessive case, as with "St. Paul's Cathedral's vergers"; discouraged on grounds of style.

plural of double possessive

plural of possessive pronoun

(law) Synonym of adverse possession

The act of one caring for or one's interest over something.

(linguistics) A suffix that indicates possession, occurs in some Uralic, Turkic, Semitic and Indo-European languages.

plural of reflexive possessive pronoun