own

Plural: owns

Verb

Verb Forms: owned, owning, owns

To have something as a possession; to possess.
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.

Examples

I must own that I have been at fault all this time.
I own this car.
I will own my enemies.
If he wins, he will own you.
If I play this word, I will OWN that triple word score square.
The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.
to own one as a son
When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English owen, aȝen, 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 (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), Dutch, German and Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish egen (“own”), Icelandic eigin (“own”). Originally past participle of the verb at hand in English owe.
Also cognate with Sanskrit ईश्वर (īśvará, “able to do, capable of; owner, master”).

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

disown

Scrabble Score: 6

own: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
own: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
own: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

own: valid Words With Friends Word