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homeowner

noun

Etymology

From home + owner.

  1. derived from *h₂eyḱ-✻ — “to have, possess”
  2. derived from *aiganaz✻ — “own”
  3. derived from *aigan✻ — “own”
  4. derived from āgen — “own, proper, peculiar”
  5. derived from aȝen
  6. formed as owner — “own + -er”
  7. formed as homeowner — “home + owner”

Definitions

  1. Someone who owns a house.

    • He advised homeowners to get insurance before then so they can be grandfathered in as discretionary buyers of flood insurance in a nonflood zone.
    • The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.

  2. Someone who does not have the title to a house, but has possession and is paying for it…

    Someone who does not have the title to a house, but has possession and is paying for it in installments.

    • The taxability of forgiven debt is set to become a pressing issue as more homeowners fall behind on their mortgages and face foreclosure.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for homeowner. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA