The quality of being possible. / A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being. / An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.

Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights. / Something that is owned. / Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.

(obsolete) To invest with property.

(US) An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas. / Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands.

(intransitive) To play possum; to feign sleep, illness, or death.

To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own. / Of an idea, thought, etc.: to dominate (someone's mind); to strongly influence.

(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.

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

(idiomatic) To feign death; to remain quiet and still to escape attention or remain undetected; to lie low. / (idiomatic) To feign sleep, illness, etc.

simple past tense and past participle of possess