own

Meaning

Adj

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.

Verb

1. To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
2. To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
3. To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
4. To virtually or figuratively enslave.
5. (slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
6. (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. (slang) To be very good.
8. To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
9. To admit; concede; acknowledge.
10. To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
11. To take responsibility for.
12. To recognise; acknowledge.
13. To claim as one's own.
14. To confess.

Noun

A crushing insult.

Concepts

own

possess

have

personal

hold

one’s own

self

proper

admit

acknowledge

confess

private

occupy

recognize

same

ain

native

my

distinctive

particular

separate

special

receive

obtain

belong to

individual

peculiar

control

profess

fresh

in possession of

possession

associated with

aloof

apart

distinct

self’s

accept

agree

allow

cede

grant

autologous

be endowed with

understand

have a proprietary right

have possession

characteristic

idiosyncratic

unique

their

theirs

relating to one-self

german

inhouse

subjective

hold the ownesship

carry

come up with

himself

idem

overrule

mine

master

avow

come clean

have to

countryman

take possession of

even

friendly

commit

dedicate

employ

endowed with

miss

give

specialised

specialized

related by blood

home

familiar

from home

posses

keep

grasp

hand

gain

own up

oxygen

oyster

earn

get

respective

home country

homeland

declare

all

concede

recognition

owe

master of

place

got

possession of

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əʊn/

Etymology

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”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots ain (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), Dutch, German and Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish egen (“own”), Icelandic eigin (“own”). Originally past participle of the verb at hand in English owe.
Also cognate with Sanskrit ईश्वर (īśvará, “able to do, capable of; owner, master”).

Sentences

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