own, have, possess
(verb) have ownership or possession of; “He owns three houses in Florida”; “How many cars does she have?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
own
Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
Not shared
(obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
(obsolete) Not foreign.
• Often used for implication of ownership, often with emphasis. In modern usage, it always follows a possessive determiner, or a noun in the possessive case.
own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)
(transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
(transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
(transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
(transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
(online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
(transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
• (have rightful possession of): to possess
• (defeat): beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best
own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)
(transitive, obsolete) To grant; give.
(intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
(transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
(transitive) To take responsibility for.
(transitive) To answer to.
(transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
(transitive) To claim as one's own.
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
• disown
• NOW, NWO, now, won
Source: Wiktionary
Own, v. t. Etym: [OE. unnen to grant, permit, be pleased with, AS. unnan to grant; akin to OS. giunnan, G. gönnen, Icel. unna; of uncertain origin. This word has been confused with own to possess.]
Definition: To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love. The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide owns. Keats.
Own, a. Etym: [OE. owen, awen, auen, aughen, AS. agen, p. p. of agan to possess; akin to OS. egan, G. & D. eigen, Icel. eiginn, Sw. & Dan. egen. sq. root110. See Owe.]
Definition: Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar;
– most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price. "No man was his own [i. e., no man was master of himself, or in possession of his senses]." Shak. To hold one's own, to keep or maintain one's possessions; to yield nothing; esp., to suffer no loss or disadvantage in a contest. Shak.
Own, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Owned; p. pr. & vb. n. Owning.] Etym: [OE. ohnien, ahnien, AS. agnian, fr. agen own, a. See Own, a.]
Definition: To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
20 December 2024
(verb) commit fraud and steal from one’s employer; “We found out that she had been fiddling for years”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
