English Explanatory Dictionary

own

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
Not shared.
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.
To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
To virtually or figuratively enslave.
To defeat, dominate, or be above.
To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).
To be very good.
To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.
To acknowledge.
To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
To take responsibility for.
To recognise.

noun

A crushing insult.

Pronunciation

/əʊn/ /ɑːn/ /aʊn/ ōn /oʊn/ En-us-own.ogg /uŋ/

Word forms

own ain 'n owne owns owning owned

Etymology

From Middle English aȝen, owen, from Old English āgen (“own, proper, peculiar”), originally the past participle of āgan; from Proto-West Germanic *aigan (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to have, possess”). Cognates Cognate with Scots ain, awin, awn, ayn (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), West Frisian, Dutch, and German eigen (“own”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish egen (“own”), Faroese egin (“own”), Icelandic eigin, eiginn (“own”), Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”); also Ossetian исын (isyn, “to take”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B aik- (“to know, recognize”), Sanskrit ईश (īśa, “owning, possessing”). Originally past participle of the verb at hand in English owe.

Synonyms

to possess acquire have to one's name property of title to pwn beat defeat overcome overthrow vanquish have take best 0wn

Antonyms

disown

Derived words

abound in one's own sense afraid of one's own shadow after one's own heart after one's own soul a good deed is its own reward a life of its own a prophet has no honor in his own country a prophet is not without honor save in his own country at one's own peril at one's own risk attend to one's own knitting beat someone at their own game believe one's own eyes be one's own man be one's own worst enemy bird of one's own brain blow one's own horn blow one's own trumpet bring one's own hide to market by one's own hand carry one's own hide to market carry one's own weight catch someone at their own game chase one's own tail choose-your-own-adventure choose your own adventure come into one's own comfortable in one's own skin cut one's own throat devil's own dig one's own grave don't shit in your own nest do one's own thing do one's own time dose of one's own medicine drink one's own Kool-Aid each to his own each to their own eat one's own eat one's own dog food every man is the architect of his own fortune every miller draws water to his own mill feather one's own nest for one's own good for one's own hand for one's own part foul one's own nest frolic of his own get one's own back get one's own way God's own country God's own county go one's own way have a mind of one's own have it your own way have one's own zip code high on one's own supply hoist by one's own petard hoisted by one's own petard hoisted on one's own petard

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