Usually means: Ownership, control over someone, something.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word possessive:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. possessive, the possessive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. possessive, the possessive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. possessive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. possessive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. possessive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Possessive, possessive: Wordnik
  7. possessive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. possessive: Wiktionary
  9. possessive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. possessive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. possessive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. possessive: Dictionary.com
  13. possessive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Possessive (disambiguation), Possessive (linguistics), Possessive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Possessive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. possessive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. possessive: Rhymezone
  18. possessive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. possessive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. possessive: Free Dictionary
  21. possessive: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. possessive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. possessive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. possessive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. possessive: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. possessive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to ownership or possession.
▸ adjective:  (grammar) Indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc.
▸ adjective:  Unwilling to yield possession of.
▸ noun:  (grammar) The possessive case.
▸ noun:  (grammar) A word used to indicate the possessive case.

Similar:
acquisitive, genitive, dominant, possessory, possessionary, proprietorial, possessival, poss., proprietary, proprietive, more...

Opposite:
non-possessive, unpossessive, selfless

Types:
singular, plural, possessive pronoun, more...

Phrases:
possessive pronoun, possessive pronouns, possessive case, possessive adjective, possessive adjectives, more...

Adjectives:
singular, plural, double, prenominal, english, nominative, little, neuter, second, inflected, more

Colors:
    crimson,     burgundy,     maroon,     scarlet,     ruby, more...



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Similar:
acquisitive, genitive, dominant, possessory, possessionary, proprietorial, possessival, poss., proprietary, proprietive, more...

Opposite:
non-possessive, unpossessive, selfless

Types:
singular, plural, possessive pronoun, more...

Phrases:
possessive pronoun, possessive pronouns, possessive case, possessive adjective, possessive adjectives, possessive suffix, possessive noun, possessive determiner, possessive determiners, possessive apostrophe, more...

Adjectives:
singular, plural, double, prenominal, english, nominative, little, neuter, second, inflected, more

Colors:
    crimson,     burgundy,     maroon,     scarlet,     ruby, more...



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