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• (Received Pronunciation) MFA^(ključ): /əʊn/
• (General American) enPR: ōn, MFA^(ključ): /oʊn/

• Audio (GA):

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• (Hong Kong) MFA^(ključ): /uŋ/
• Rime: -əʊn

From Srednji Engleski owen, aȝen, from Stari Engleski āgen (“own, proper, peculiar”), originally the past participle of āgan; from Pra-Zapadno Germanski *aigan (“own”), from Pra-Germanski *aiganaz (“own”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to have, possess”).

Also cognate with Sanskrt ईश्वर (īśvará, “able to do, capable of; owner, master”).

• owne (obsolete)
• 'n (informal contraction)

own (not comparable)

2. 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.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 24:16:

     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.

   • Šablon:RQ:Shakespeare Tempest
   • Šablon:RQ:Churchill Celebrity
   • Šablon:RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp
   • 2013 jun 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:

     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.

3. Not shared.

   When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom.

4. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
5. (obsolete) Not foreign.

• Often used for implication of ownership, often with emphasis. In modern usage, it always follows a possessive determiner, or a noun in the possessive case.

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A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Stari Engleski āgnian, Holandski eigenen, Nemački eignen, Švedski ägna.

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 have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.

   I own this car.

2. (transitive) 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.

3. (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

   I will own my enemies.

   If he wins, he will own you.

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.
   • 1996 jun 21, The Happiest Dragon Alive!!, “Re: An unusual situation”, in ‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-24, message-ID <4qe8pc$8ti@nerd.apk.net>:

     "TH15 5Y5T3M 15 0WN3D"

7. (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
8. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.

   • 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 6:

     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.

   • Šablon:RQ:Conrad Heart of Darkness
   • Šablon:RQ:Lawrence Sons and Lovers
9. (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
   • Šablon:RQ:Shakespeare Tempest
   • Šablon:RQ:Carlyle Past and Present
10. (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
    • 2014 april 17, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, Apr 17, 2014:

      "Well, I'm not hiding anymore! I'm owning my girly looks with cute short pink hair!"

11. (transitive) To take responsibility for.
12. (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.

    to own one as a son

13. (transitive) To claim as one's own.
14. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.

• (have rightful possession of): to possess, acquire, have to one's name, property of, titled to
• (defeat): beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best

• (admit): disown

own (plural owns)

1. (Internet slang) A crushing insult.
   • 2023 jun 10, @__Happyface, Twitter‎^[2]:

     the amount of bigots that just screenshot my profile thinking it's the biggest own is insane.

• self-own

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• NOW, NWO, now, won ^{(alphagram now)}

own

1. aw (used to express affection)

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own

1. Alternative form of oan
   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 3:

     Vo no own caars fadere betides

     Whom no one cares what betides,^[1]

   • OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:

     Esholthet own anoree^[2]