in full control of one's faculties, and having a firm belief in one's abilities; confident, assured and poised

An adjective expressing possession.

(grammar) A pronoun which expresses possession.

(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.

plural of double possessive

(transitive, law) To take ownership of (property) through the doctrine of adverse possession.

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

(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.

confidence in one's own powers / calmness and composure, especially when under stress

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