possessor

Other forms of possessor

plural

possessors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about possessor

What does possessor mean?

possessor means "a person who owns something".

How many syllables are in possessor?

possessor has 3 syllables: pos-ses-sor. The stress falls on "ses". In IPA it is /pəˈzɛsɚ/.

What is another word for possessor?

Close synonyms include owner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is possessor a common word?

possessor is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.