WORLDLY POSSESSIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does worldly possessions mean? 

• WORLDLY POSSESSIONS (noun)
  The noun WORLDLY POSSESSIONS has 1 sense:

1. all the property that someone possesses

  Familiarity information: WORLDLY POSSESSIONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORLDLY POSSESSIONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All the property that someone possesses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

worldly belongings; worldly goods; worldly possessions

Context example:

he left all his worldly possessions to his daughter

Hypernyms ("worldly possessions" is a kind of...):

belongings; holding; property (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone)

 Context examples 

At length I was moving quietly towards the door, with the intention of saying that perhaps I should consult his feelings best by withdrawing: when he said, with his hands in his coat pockets, into which it was as much as he could do to get them; and with what I should call, upon the whole, a decidedly pious air: You are probably aware, Mr. Copperfield, that I am not altogether destitute of worldly possessions, and that my daughter is my nearest and dearest relative?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)