own

own

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English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əʊn/
  • (General American) enPR: ōn, IPA(key): /oʊn/
  • (Hong Kong) IPA(key): /uŋ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊn

Etymology 1

From Middle English owen, aȝen, from Old English āgen (own, proper, peculiar), originally the past participle of āgan; from Proto-West Germanic *aigan (own), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (own), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (to have, possess).

Also cognate with Sanskrit ईश्वर (īśvará, able to do, capable of; owner, master).

Alternative forms

  • owne (obsolete)
  • 'n (informal contraction)

Adjective

own (not comparable)

  1. Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
  2. Not shared.
  3. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
  4. (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.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.

Verb

own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)

  1. (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
  2. (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
  3. (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
  4. (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
  5. (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
  6. (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.
  7. (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
  8. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
  9. (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
  10. (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
  11. (transitive) To take responsibility for.
  12. (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
  13. (transitive) To claim as one's own.
  14. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
Synonyms
  • (have rightful possession of): to possess, acquire, have to one's name, property of, titled to
  • (defeat): beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best
Antonyms
  • (admit): disown
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

own (plural owns)

  1. (Internet slang) A crushing insult.
Derived terms
  • self-own

References

  • Universal Dictionary of the English Language [UDEL], volume 3, 1896, page 3429: “To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to.
  • ibid., UDEL, 1896
  • ibid., UDEL, 1896
  • ibid., UDEL, 1896

Anagrams

  • NOW, NWO, now, won

Portuguese

Interjection

own

  1. aw (used to express affection)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:own.

Yola

Pronoun

own

  1. Alternative form of oan

Adjective

own

  1. Alternative form of oan

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