own
Meaning of own
adjective
- Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
- Not shared
When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom.
- Peculiar, domestic.
- Not foreign.
- To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
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.
- To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
- To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
- To grant; give.
- To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
- To admit; concede; acknowledge.
- To take responsibility for.
- To answer to.
- To recognise; acknowledge.
to own one as a son
- To claim as one's own.
- To confess.
Information about own
- The plural form of own is: owns.
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Hyphenation of own
own
- It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
- own is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
own synonyms
Meaning ain:
Meaning have:
Meaning :
beat, best, defeat, overcome, overthrow, take, vanquish
Translation of own
- French: posséder, avoir, propre
- German: besitzen, haben
- Italian: possedere, avere, proprio
- Portuguese: possuir, ter
- Spanish: poseer, tener, propio, propia
Anagrams of own
Words that rhyme with own
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