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Own

//ɑːn// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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-comparable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Not shared. not-comparable

    "When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom."

  3. 3
    Peculiar, domestic. not-comparable, obsolete
  4. 4
    Not foreign. not-comparable, obsolete
Adjective
  1. 1
    belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A crushing insult. Internet

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

Verb
  1. 1
    To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset. transitive

    "I own this car."

  2. 2
    have ownership or possession of wordnet
  3. 3
    To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. transitive

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

  4. 4
    To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. transitive

    "I will own my enemies."

  5. 5
    To virtually or figuratively enslave. transitive
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  1. 6
    To defeat, dominate, or be above. Internet, slang
  2. 7
    To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system. slang, transitive

    ""TH15 5Y5T3M 15 0WN3D""

  3. 8
    To be very good. intransitive, slang
  4. 9
    To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny. intransitive

    "I must own that I have been at fault all this time."

  5. 10
    To admit; concede; acknowledge. transitive

    "Two of those fellows you must know and own."

  6. 11
    To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of. transitive

    ""Well, I'm not hiding anymore! I'm owning my girly looks with cute short pink hair!""

  7. 12
    To take responsibility for. transitive

    "Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, told reporters that Democrats “own” the assassination of Mr. Kirk. When a reporter questioned her about attacks on Democrats, she cut him off. “Democrats own this,” she said. “We’re talking about Charlie Kirk right now.”"

  8. 13
    To recognise; acknowledge. transitive

    "to own one as a son"

  9. 14
    To claim as one's own. transitive
  10. 15
    To confess. UK, dialectal, intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English owen, aȝen, 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 (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), Dutch, German and Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish egen (“own”), Icelandic eigin (“own”). Originally past participle of the verb at hand in English owe. Also cognate with Sanskrit ईश्वर (īśvará, “able to do, capable of; owner, master”).

Etymology 2

A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.

Etymology 3

A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.

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