own

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Verb 1.2.1.1 Synonyms 1.2.1.2 Derived terms 1.2.1.3 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Adjective 1.3.1.1 Usage notes 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 1.4.1.1 Quotations 1.4.1.2 Translations 1.5 Anagrams 1.6 References

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /əʊn/, SAMPA: /@Un/
• (US) enPR: ōn, IPA: /oʊn/, SAMPA: /oUn/
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• Rhymes: -əʊn

[edit] Etymology 1

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Old English āgnian. Cognate with German eignen, Swedish ägna.

[edit] Verb

to own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)

1. (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); "To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to." (Ref 1)

   I own this car.

2. To claim as one's own; to answer to.
   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Tank Books 2007, p. 25:

     I am sorry to own I began to worry then.

3. (transitive) To defeat or embarrass.

   I will own my enemies.

   If he wins, he will own you.

4. (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
5. (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain "super-user" or "root" access into a computer system thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
6. (intransitive) To admit to be true; concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny; to admit to be true. (Ref 2)
7. (intransitive) To acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of. (Ref 3)

[edit] Synonyms

• (have rightful possession of): to possess
• (acknowledge responsibility for): be responsible for, admit or take responsibility for
• (admit): confess, acknowledge, allow
• (defeat): beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best

[edit] Derived terms

• on one's own
• own up
• owner
• pwned
• disown

[edit] Translations

[edit] Etymology 2

Old English āgen.

[edit] Adjective

own

1. Belonging to; possessed; proper to;

   Surprisingly, I realised my own brother had the same idea as me.

   You need to find your own seat - this one is mine.

   He gave her a pen, because he already had his own.

   The restored Maxwell is Bob's own car.

   They went this way, but we need to find our own way.

   We have made some arrangements, but you will need to make your own.

   They were all prepared for the picnic, because they had all brought their own food and plates.

2. (obsolete) peculiar, domestic;
3. (obsolete) not foreign;

[edit] Usage notes

• implying ownership, often with emphasis. It always follows a possessive pronoun, or a noun in the possessive case.

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[edit] Etymology 3

Old English unnen. Akin to German gönnen ( < Old High German gi- + unnan), Old Norse unna (Danish unde)^[1]. In Gothic only the substantive 𐌰𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃 (ansts) is attested.^[2]

[edit] Verb

to own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)

1. (transitive) To recognise, to acknowledge responsibility for, to admit to be true.

[edit] Quotations

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1. • 1611, Shakespeare, The Tempest, v.:

   Two of those fellows you must know and own.

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 1, Jocelin of Brakelond

   It must be owned, the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things!

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

• now
• won

[edit] References

• 1896, Universal Dictionary of the English Language [UDEL], v3 p3429:

  To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to.

• 1896, ibid., UDEL
• 1896, ibid., UDEL
• 1896, ibid., UDEL

• Notes:

1. ^ “own” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
2. ^ Etymology of the German cognate in Deutsches Wörterbuch