POSSESSOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does possessor mean? 

• POSSESSOR (noun)
  The noun POSSESSOR has 1 sense:

1. a person who owns something

  Familiarity information: POSSESSOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSSESSOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who owns something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

owner; possessor

Context example:

who is the owner of that friendly smile?

Hypernyms ("possessor" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "possessor"):

holder (a person who holds something)

homeowner; householder (someone who owns a home)

part-owner (a person who owns something in common with others)

saver (someone who saves (especially money))

shipowner (someone who owns a ship or a share in a ship)

Derivation:

possess (have ownership or possession of)

 Context examples 

Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself possessor of its clay dwelling-place.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The Kellynch property was good, but not equal to Sir Walter's apprehension of the state required in its possessor.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But they learnt, on enquiry, that its possessor, an elderly lady of very good character, was unfortunately too infirm to mix with the world, and never stirred from home.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He was professor of physics in the high school, possessor of a large family, a meagre salary, and a select fund of parrot-learned knowledge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In comparing her recollection of Pemberley with the minute description which Wickham could give, and in bestowing her tribute of praise on the character of its late possessor, she was delighting both him and herself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It seemed to me that, should he become the possessor of Mr. Oliver's large fortune, he might do as much good with it as if he went and laid his genius out to wither, and his strength to waste, under a tropical sun.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)