Definition of "own"

own¹

/əʊn/

adjective
not comparable
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.
  Quotations
  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.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Deuteronomy 24:16
  Prospero: Fairely ſpoke ; / Sit then, and talke with her, ſhe is thine owne ;
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i], page 14
  I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
  He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
  2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27
2. Not shared.
3. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
4. (obsolete) Not foreign.

own²

/əʊn/

verb
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 have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
2. (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
3. (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
4. (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
5. (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
6. (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
  Quotations
  "TH15 5Y5T3M 15 0WN3D"
  1996 June 21, The Happiest Dragon Alive!!, “Re: An unusual situation”, in ‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-24, message-ID <[email protected]>
7. (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
8. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
  Quotations
  I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
  1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  For instance, when I flung the cat out of an upper window (though I did it from no ill-feeling, and it didn't hurt the cat), I was ready, after a moment's reflection, to own I was wrong, as a gentleman should.
  1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 6
  I am sorry to own I began to worry then.
  1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I
  They learned how perfectly peaceful the home could be. And they almost regretted—though none of them would have owned to such callousness—that their father was soon coming back.
  1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 5, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]
9. (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
  Quotations
  Two of those fellows you must know and own.
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]
  It must be owned, the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things!
  1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “1, ’’Jocelin of Brakelond’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, book II (The Ancient Monk)
10. (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
  Quotations
  "Well, I'm not hiding anymore! I'm owning my girly looks with cute short pink hair!"
  2014 April 17, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, Apr 17, 2014
11. (transitive) To take responsibility for.
12. (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
13. (transitive) To claim as one's own.
14. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
noun
plural owns
1. (Internet slang) A crushing insult.
  Quotations
  the amount of bigots that just screenshot my profile thinking it's the biggest own is insane.
  2023 June 10, @__Happyface, Twitter‎

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