Own

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or belonging to oneself or itself: She makes her own clothes.
  • n. That which belongs to one: I wanted a room of my own.
  • v. To have or possess as property: owns a chain of restaurants.
  • v. To have control over: For a time, enemy planes owned the skies.
  • v. To admit as being in accordance with fact, truth, or a claim; acknowledge.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a full confession or acknowledgment: When confronted with the evidence the thief owned up. See Synonyms at acknowledge.
  • idiom. on (one's) own By one's own efforts: She got the job on her own.
  • idiom. on (one's) own Responsible for oneself; independent of outside help or control: He is now out of college and on his own.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); "To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to." (Ref 1)
  • v. To claim as one's own; to answer to.
  • v. To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
  • v. To virtually or figuratively enslave.
  • v. To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
  • v. To illicitly obtain "super-user" or "root" access into a computer system thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
  • v. To admit to be true; concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny; to admit to be true. (Ref 2)
  • v. To acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of. (Ref 3)
  • adj. Belonging to; possessed; proper to.
  • adj. Peculiar, domestic.
  • adj. Not foreign.
  • v. To grant; give.
  • v. To admit; concede; acknowledge.
  • v. To recognise; acknowledge.
  • v. To confess.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character.
  • adj. Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; -- most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership
  • v. To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Properly or exclusively belonging to one's self or itself; pertaining to or characteristic of the subject, person or thing; peculiar; proper; exclusive; particular; individual; private: used after a possessive, emphasizing the possession: as, to buy a thing with one's own money; to see a thing with one's own eyes; he was beaten at his own game; mind your own business.
  • [In this sense own is often used elliptically. the noun which it is to be regarded as qualifying being omitted: as, to hold one's own (that is, one's own ground, or one's own cause); a man can do as he likes with his own (that is, his own property, possessions, goods, etc.).
  • Actual: used without a possessive, with to instead before the possessor: as, own brother to some one.
  • To be free to control one's own time.
  • To have or hold as one's own; possess; hold or possess rightfully or legally; nave and enjoy the right of property in; in a general sense, to have: as, to own a large estate, or a part interest in a ship.
  • Synonyms Hold, Occupy, etc. See possess.
  • To grant; give.
  • To admit; concede; acknowledge: as, to own a fault; to own the force of a statement.
  • To recognize; acknowledge: as, to own one as a son.
  • Synonyms Admit, Confess, etc. See acknowledge.
  • To confess: with to: as, to own to a fault.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
  • v. have ownership or possession of
  • Equivalent
    personal   
    Verb Form
    owned    owning    owns   
    Hyponym
    prepossess   
    Form
    owned    owning    disown    own up    on one's own    owner    owndom    pwned   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    grant    acknowledge    confess    peculiar    possess    vanquish    defeat    beat    have    take   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bastogne    Bayonne    Capone    Cohn    Cologne    Dijon    Goan    Joan    Leone    Malone   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    new    thy    human    name    self    wife    children    daughter    conduct    heart