To hold, own, or possess as an appurtenance, property, attribute, or quality; hold in possession: as, to have and to hold.To hold by accepting, receiving, obtaining, gaining, or acquiring in any way; become possessed of or endowed with; be in receipt of; get: as, he has high wages; they have had ten children.To contain or comprise as an adjunct or component part: as, the work has an index; his wit has a spice of malice.To hold for use or disposal, actually or potentially; hold the control over or right to: as, to have the floor (in debate); to have the deal (in card-playing); to have authority.To hold in exercise or consideration; entertain; maintain: as, to have a wish, opinion, or objection; to have a discussion.To possess knowledge of; be acquainted with; take the meaning of; understand.To experience; enjoy or suffer; be affected with: as, to have hospitable entertainment; to have a headache; to have one's wish.To hold in estimation; maintain; regard: followed by in or a clause.To hold in one's power or at a disadvantage.To move or remove; cause or compel to move: often reflexive, with the subject or object, or both, unexpressed: as, have it out of sight.To hold or acknowledge as a duty or necessary thing to do; be under physical or moral compulsion, constraint, necessity, or obligation to do; be obliged: followed by an infinitive with to, with or without a noun or pronoun as object: as, I have a great deal to do; I have to go; he has to refund the money.To bring into possession or use; procure; provide; take.To procure or permit to be or to be done; cause, let, allow, etc.: as, to have one's horse shod; I will not have such conduct.To be: used indefinitely in certain idiomatic expressions and phrases, mentioned below.An auxiliary forming, with the past participle of the principal verb, the compound tenses of verbs (including have), both transitive and intransitive, sometimes with another auxiliary: as, I have or had done it; he will have departed by that time; you should not have gone.