Possessive: Definition and part of speech

Possessive

  1. n. A possessive pronoun, or a word in the possessive case.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession.
  3. n. The possessive case.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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