Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
possessive pronoun
(pos¦ses|sive pro|noun)
noun
Grammar
a pronoun indicating possession, for example
mine
,
yours
,
hers
,
theirs
.
More words in this category
athematic
comma
conjunct
construction
dependent
disjunct
ergative
future
imperfect
indirect question
infinitive
non-finite
noun
prep.
prosthesis
qualifier
sequence of tenses
singular
temporal
1
verbal
Nearby Words
poss
posse
Posse Comitatus Act
possess
possessed
possession
possession order
possessive
possessive determiner
possessive pronoun
possessor
posset
possibility
possible
possibly
possie
POSSLQ
possum
post
1