WordNet
n. something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property"; [syn: property, belongings, holding]
Usage examples of "material possession".
His life had been fifteen years of luxury, of staff existing solely to run around after him, of any material possession he wanted a single phone call away.
But a book is different-it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society, as the Master stated many times.
As a material possession -- like a pair of socks or a souvenir paperweight -- a letter is yours if someone sends it to you, and you can sell it if you like.
If the item of stolenhad been anything other than a book, it would have beenBut a book is different-it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to aordered society, as the Master stated many times.
Between the trunk and the bag, I figured pretty much every material possession he owned now sat on the floor by my door.
They are more fine in detail than any holograph, and more precious to us than any material possession.
The wench is gold of hair, gold of skin, and gold of eyes, created in the likeness of Frigg's favorite material possession.
For what material possession, what exchange of the abstraction of money for the concrete fact of experience, might justify such a transaction?
Except the clothes on their backs, a statue of Siddhartha and a forty-watt lightbulb, there was not a single material possession in the room.