own
A1Meanings
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1
verb
have ownership or possession of
We own three houses in Florida and one in Toronto.
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adj
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.
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.
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3
adj
Not shared.
When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom.
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4
verb
To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
I own this car.
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5
verb
To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.
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6
verb
To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
I will own my enemies.
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7
verb
To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).
"TH15 5Y5T3M 15 0WN3D"
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verb
To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.
I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
Etymology
From Middle English aȝen, owen, 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, awin, awn, ayn (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), West Frisian, Dutch, and German eigen (“own”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish egen (“own”), Faroese egin (“own”), Icelandic eigin, eiginn (“own”), Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”); also Ossetian исын (isyn, “to take”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B aik…