own
adjEtymology
From Middle English aȝen, owen, 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, awin, awn, ayn (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), West Frisian, Dutch, and German eigen (“own”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish egen (“own”), Faroese egin (“own”), Icelandic eigin, eiginn (“own”), Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”); also Ossetian исын (isyn, “to take”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B aik- (“to know, recognize”), Sanskrit ईश (īśa, “owning, possessing”). Originally past participle of the verb at hand in English owe.
- derived from aȝen
Definitions
Belonging to
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.
- The fathers shall not bee put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: euery man shall be put to death for his owne sinne.
- Prospero: Fairely ſpoke ; / Sit then, and talke with her, ſhe is thine owne ;
Not shared.
- When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom.
Peculiar, domestic.
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Not foreign.
To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital)
To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
- I own this car.
To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the…
To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
- The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.
To defeat or embarrass
To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- I will own my enemies.
- If he wins, he will own you.
To virtually or figuratively enslave.
To defeat, dominate, or be above.
To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full…
To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).
- "TH15 5Y5T3M 15 0WN3D"
To be very good.
To admit, concede, grant, allow
To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.
- I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
- For instance, when I flung the cat out of an upper window (though I did it from no ill-feeling, and it didn't hurt the cat), I was ready, after a moment's reflection, to own I was wrong, as a gentleman should.
- I am sorry to own I began to worry then.
To acknowledge.
- I must own that I have been at fault all this time.
- Two of those fellows you must know and own.
- It must be owned, the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things!
To proudly acknowledge
To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
- "Well, I'm not hiding anymore! I'm owning my girly looks with cute short pink hair!"
To take responsibility for.
To recognise.
- I own him as a son of my own.
To claim as one's own.
To confess.
A crushing insult.
- the amount of bigots that just screenshot my profile thinking it's the biggest own is insane.
The neighborhood
- antonymdisownantonym(s) of “admit”
Derived
abound in one's own sense, afraid of one's own shadow, after one's own heart, after one's own soul, a good deed is its own reward, a life of its own, a prophet has no honor in his own country, a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, at one's own peril, at one's own risk, attend to one's own knitting, beat someone at their own game, believe one's own eyes, be one's own man, be one's own worst enemy, bird of one's own brain, blow one's own horn, blow one's own trumpet, bring one's own hide to market, by one's own hand, carry one's own hide to market, carry one's own weight, catch someone at their own game, chase one's own tail, choose-your-own-adventure, choose your own adventure, come into one's own, comfortable in one's own skin, cut one's own throat, devil's own, dig one's own grave, don't shit in your own nest, do one's own thing, do one's own time, dose of one's own medicine, drink one's own Kool-Aid, each to his own, each to their own, eat one's own, eat one's own dog food · +167 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for own. 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