Own
[əʊn] or [on]
Definition
(verb.) have ownership or possession of; 'He owns three houses in Florida'; 'How many cars does she have?'.
(adj.) belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive; 'for your own use'; 'do your own thing'; 'she makes her own clothes'; '`ain' is Scottish' .
Edited by Ian--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.
(a.) Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; -- most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price.
(a.) To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.
Typed by Ina
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Possess, hold, have, be in possession of, have a title to.[2]. Acknowledge, confess, avow, allow, admit.
Typist: Maura
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Possess, hold, have, acknowledge, avow, admit, confess
ANT:Alienate, forfeit, lose, disclaim, disavow, disinherit, disown, abjure, abandon
Editor: Margie
Definition
v.t. to possess: to be the rightful owner of.
v.t. to grant: to allow to be true: concede: acknowledge.
adj. possessed: belonging to one's self and to no other: peculiar.—ns. Own′er one who owns or possesses; Own′ership state of being an owner: right of possession.
Typist: Vance
Examples
- She had been all sweetness and kindness, always thankful, always gentle, even when Mrs. Clapp lost her own temper and pressed for the rent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The boy's eyes had lighted with pleasure as I spoke, and I saw him glance from his rusty trappings to the magnificence of my own. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Until Edison made his wonderful invention in 1877, the human race was entirely without means for preserving or passing on to posterity its own linguistic utterances or any other vocal sound. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses, each standing in its own grounds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This thrown open, admitted him to his own private apartment of three rooms: his bed-chamber and two others. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Indisputably, Mr. Home owned manly self-control, however he might secretly feel on some matters. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I handed it back to Mr. Murthwaite, and owned that this curious specimen of Hindoo correspondence rather puzzled me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If both had owned plantations in Louisiana, they would have been as like as two old bullets cast in the same mould. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Riderhood began to have an air of being better at a guess than Bradley owned to being. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, owned by the North German Lloyd Company, and built in 1897, is shown in Fig. 114, and for three years held the record as the fastest steamship afloat. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He owned it to me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A plot organised among the Indians who originally owned the jewel, says Mr. Franklin-- a plot with some old Hindoo superstition at the bottom of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Her master is Mr. Legree, who owns a cotton plantation on the Red River. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Martin, the youngest of the three, owns another nature. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In some great districts the Church owns all the property--lands, watercourses, woods, mills and factories. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Among the world’s largest blast furnaces may be mentioned the Austrian Alpine Montan Gesellschaft, which concern owns thirty-two furnaces. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- All on you owns stock and land; which on you owns a brought-up London gentleman? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And this wretch owns that good, faithful Tom, and Eliza's child! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They were rather on the level of the great land-owning dukes and peers of France and England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If I say what you tell me to say to him--I am owning that I have degraded myself to his face. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Owning everything in common, even to your women and children, has resulted in your owning nothing in common. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But how does this affect your owning the Grange? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The managing director of the English railroad owning this line was Forbes, who heard I was coming over, and placed the private saloon at my disposal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But if it is our umbleness, I hope you won't mind owning to it, Master Copperfield; for we are well aware of our condition. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I gave you one opportunity after another of owning the truth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Checker: Millicent