OWN

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

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Etymology 1

Adjective

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.

Usage notes

• 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.

Etymology 2

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• (have rightful possession of): to possess

• (defeat): beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best

Etymology 3

Verb

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.

Antonyms

• disown

Anagrams

• NOW, NWO, now, won

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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