Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - possessive
Possessive
possessive
adj. & n. --adj. 1 showing a desire to possess or retain what one already owns. 2 showing jealous and domineering tendencies towards another person. 3 Gram. indicating possession. --n. (in full possessive case) Gram. the case of nouns and pronouns expressing possession. Phrases and idioms possessive pronoun each of the pronouns indicating possession (my, your, his, their, etc.) or the corresponding absolute forms (mine, yours, his, theirs, etc.). Derivatives possessively adv. possessiveness n. Etymology: L possessivus (as POSSESS), transl. Gk ktetike (ptosis case)
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I. adjective Date: 15th century of, relating to, or constituting a word, a word group, or a grammatical case that denotes ownership or a relation analogous to ownership, manifesting possession or the desire to own or dominate, ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. noun Date: 15th century a ~ word or word group, 2. the ~ case, a word in the ~ case ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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