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owndom

noun
/ˈəʊn.dəm/UK/ˈoʊn.dəm/US

Etymology

From own + -dom, a calque of German Eigentum (“property”), from eigen (“own”) + -tum (“-dom”). Compare Saterland Frisian Oaindum (“property, possession”), Dutch eigendom, West Frisian eigendom.

  1. derived from eigendom
  2. derived from eigendom
  3. derived from Oaindum — “property, possession”
  4. derived from Eigentum — “property”

Definitions

  1. Property.

    • The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.
    • Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom.
    • There must be a tormenting feeling of self-insufficiency in me until I can realize that my self-possession subsumes my all. I must endure my goading ambition until I can acknowledge ownership of all of my owndom.

  2. Personal belongings

    Personal belongings; possessions.

  3. A characteristic

    A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Ownership

      Ownership; possession.

      • The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the allodial land the Orkneys, "but the earls have held it since in fief, but never as their owndom[…]"

    2. Control of oneself

      Control of oneself; self-mastery.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at owndom. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01owndom02personal03individuals04individual05alone06share07configuration08arranged09married10husband

A definitional loop anchored at owndom. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at owndom

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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