own

Meanings

Plural: owns

Verb

• have ownership or possession of
  • "He owns three houses in Florida"
• To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
• To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
• To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
• To virtually or figuratively enslave.
• To defeat, dominate, or be above.
• To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system.
• To be very good.
• To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
• To admit; concede; acknowledge.
• To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
• To take responsibility for.
• To recognise; acknowledge.
• To claim as one's own.
• To confess.

Adjective Satellite

• 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"

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.
• Not shared.
• Peculiar, domestic.
• Not foreign.

Noun

• A crushing insult.

Synonyms

0wn, acquire, ain, beat, best, defeat, have, have to one's name, overcome, overthrow, possess, property of, pwn, take, title to, to possess, vanquish

Antonyms

disown

Anagrams of own