Definition of have:

part of speech: verb

To possess or hold; to enjoy; to be under necessity or impelled by duty, as you will have to do it; to desire, as I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God; to buy; to hold opinion; to bring forth.

Usage examples:

• Have you told Dick? Marie Belloc Lowndes in "Jane Oglander".

• " I have nothing to say," she exclaimed. Charles Weathers Bump in "The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories".

• Have is the most general word, and is applied to whatever belongs to or is connected with one; a man has a head or a head- ache, a fortune or an opinion, a friend or an enemy; he has time, or has need; he may be said to have what is his own, what he has borrowed, what has been entrusted to him, or what he has stolen. To possess a thing is to have the ownership with control and enjoyment of it. To hold is to have in one's hand, or securely in one's control; a man holds his friend's coat for a moment, or he holds a struggling horse; he holds a promissory note, or holds an office. To own is to have the right of property in; to possess is to have that right in actual exercise; to occupy is to have possession and use, with some degree of permanency, with or without ownership. A man occupies his own house or a room in a hotel; a man may own a farm of which he is not in possession because a tenant occupies it and is determined to hold it; the proprietor owns the property, but the tenant is in possession. To be in possession differs from possess in that to possess denotes both right and fact, while to be in possession denotes simply the fact with no affirmation as to the right. To have reason is to be endowed with the faculty; to be in possession of one's reason denotes that the faculty is in actual present exercise. in "".

• And so Christ does not say, I have the power, but, I am. Marcus Dods in "The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I".