Meaning of own in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

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

  Example: 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.

  Example: I own this car.

• To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.

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

• To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

  Example: 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.

verb

• 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.

  Example: to own one as a son

• To claim as one's own.

• To confess.