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Definition of 'own'English
Etymology 1
( wikipedia)
From ( etyl) ( m), from ( etyl) , ( etyl) ( m). See also the related term ( m).
Verb
( en-verb)
(lb) 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)
- I own this car.
(lb) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
* 1902 , Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness , Tank Books 2007, p. 25:
- I am sorry to own I began to worry then.
* 1913 ,
- They learned how perfectly peaceful the home could be. And they almost regretted—though none of them would have owned to such callousness—that their father was soon coming back.
(lb) To claim as one's own; to answer to.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
(lb) To acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of. (Ref 3)
(lb) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- I will own my enemies.
- If he wins, he will own you.
(lb) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled (m).
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.
Synonyms
* (have rightful possession of) to possess
* (acknowledge responsibility for) be responsible for, admit or take responsibility for
* (admit) confess, acknowledge, allow
* (defeat) beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best
Derived terms
* owndom
* own up
* owner
* pwn
* disown
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), .
Alternative forms
* (informal contraction)
Adjective
( en-det)
Belonging to; possessed; proper to.
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(obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
(obsolete) Not foreign.
Usage notes
* implying ownership, often with emphasis. It always follows a possessive pronoun, or a noun in the possessive case.
Derived terms
* come into one's own
* on one's own
Etymology 3
From (etyl) is attested.[ ]Etymology] of the German cognate in [[:w:de:Deutsches Wörterbuch|Deutsches Wörterbuch]
Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete) To grant; give.
To admit; concede; acknowledge.
* 1611 , Shakespeare, The Tempest , v.:
- Two of those fellows you must know and own .
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. 1, ''Jocelin of Brakelond
- 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 recognise; acknowledge.
- to own one as a son
To confess.
Statistics
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References
* 1896 , Universal Dictionary of the English Language [UDEL] , v3 p3429:
*: To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to.
* 1896 , ibid., UDEL
* 1896 , ibid., UDEL
* 1896 , ibid., UDEL
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