own

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/əʊn/

verb 5adj 4noun 1

Collocations

(verb.)

ADV

communally, jointly

The apartment is jointly owned by three friends who share all the expenses equally.

legally

My parents legally own their house in the countryside.

PHRASES

directly/indirectly owned by sb, own your own boat, home, etc.

My parents finally bought their own house after saving for ten years.

partly/wholly owned by sb

The local bakery is now wholly owned by a family who bought it ten years ago.

privately/publicly owned

The small bakery on the corner has been family-owned for three generations.

Definitions

adj

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.

Not foreign.

verb

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 ordinary connotation of property ownership.

The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.

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.

noun

A crushing insult.

the amount of bigots that just screenshot my profile thinking it's the biggest own is insane.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — have ownership or possession of

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

hold one's own

To demonstrate oneself to be capable; to provide a respectable performance or worthy competition; to stick up for oneself.

At any rate, he was like John Bull in one respect: he was sturdy and square, and fit to hold his own with any man.

off one's own bat

At one's own instigation, of one's own accord.

My boss didn't tell me to reorganize the filing system; I did it off my own bat.

hoist by one's own petard

Hurt or destroyed by one's own plot or device intended for another; "blown up by one's own bomb".

He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard.

eat one's own dog food

To use products or services one is selling internally, in order to understand their limitations.

AOL was signing up members at a furious rate, in part because it provided a better user experience than Juno, and we didn't understand that, because we didn't eat our own dog food.

leave someone to their own devices

to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance.

Left to my own devices, I'll spend hours staring into space, just thinking.

Example Bank

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.

Wiktionary

Prospero: Fairely ſpoke ; / Sit then, and talke with her, ſhe is thine owne ;

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I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohai

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I own this car.

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The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.

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I will own my enemies.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, own is marked as obsolete, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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