English Online Dictionary. What means own? What does own mean?
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)
- 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.
- 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.
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)
- (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
- (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.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
- (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
- (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
- (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
- (transitive) To take responsibility for.
- (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
- (transitive) To claim as one's own.
- (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
- (antonym(s) of “admit”): disown
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
own (plural owns)
- (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
Cornish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Brythonic *oβn, from Proto-Celtic *oβnus. Cognate with Welsh ofn.
Noun
own m
- fear, -phobia
- alarm
- fright, scare
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Adjective
own
- (Revived Late Cornish) Alternative form of ewn (“accurate”).
Portuguese
Interjection
own
- aw (used to express affection)
Yola
Pronoun
own
- Alternative form of oan
Adjective
own
- Alternative form of oan