own

Енглески

Pronunciation

• (UK) МФА^(key): /ˈəʊn/
• (US) enPR: ōn, МФА^(key): /ˈoʊn/
• (Hong Kong) МФА^(key): /ˈuŋ/

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• Риме: -əʊn

Etymology 1

From

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English

ownen, from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English

āgnian (āgnian, “to own”). Cognate with German eignen, Swedish ägna, Icelandic eiga. See also the related term owe.

Verb

own (transliteration needed)

1. (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.

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

     "TH15 5Y5T3M 15 0WN3D"

Synonyms

• (have rightful possession of): to possess
• (defeat): beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best

Derived terms

• owndom
• owner
• part-own
• state-owned
• pwn

 

Translations

have rightful possession of

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• Hebrew: no equivalent term in Хебрејски, but see , ,
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defeat — see defeat

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ido: ^{(молим проверите)}

• Old English: ^{(молим проверите)}

Etymology 2

From

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English

owen, aȝen, from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English

āgen (āgen, “own, proper, peculiar”), from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic

, from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European

. 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”).

Alternative forms

• 'n (informal contraction)

Adjective

1. Belonging to; possessed; proper to. 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 964384981, 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.

   • Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Tempest
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     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.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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.

   • 2013 јун 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, strana 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.

2. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
3. (obsolete) Not foreign.

Usage notes

• implying ownership, often with emphasis. In modern usage, it always follows a possessive pronoun, or a noun in the possessive case.

Derived terms

• come into one's own
• on one's own

Translations

belonging to (determiner)

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• Spanish: (used before the noun)
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• Thai: молим додајте овај превод ако можете
• Ukrainian: ,
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• Venetian:
• Vietnamese: молим додајте овај превод ако можете

Etymology 3

From Middle English unnen (“to favour, grant”), from Old English unnan (unnan, “to grant, allow, recognise, confess”) or geunnan (geunnan, “to allow, grant, bestow; to concede”), from . Akin to German gönnen (from + ), (Danish unde). In

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gothic

only the substantive 𐌰𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃 (ansts) is attested.

Verb

own (transliteration needed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To grant; give.
2. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
   • 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, strana 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.

   • Шаблон:RQ:Conrad Heart of Darkness
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5

     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.

3. (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
   • 1611, Shakespeare, The Tempest, v.:

     Two of those fellows you must know and own.

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 1, Jocelin of Brakelond

     It must be owned, the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things!

4. (transitive) To answer to.
   • 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.

5. (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.

   to own one as a son

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

Antonyms

• disown

Derived terms

• own up
• disown

Translations

acknowledge responsibility for

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• Spanish: ,
• Swedish: , ,

References

• 1896, Universal Dictionary of the English Language [UDEL], v3 p3429:

  To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to.

• 1896, ibid., UDEL
• 1896, ibid., UDEL
• 1896, ibid., UDEL
• Notes:

Anagrams

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

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Portuguese

Interjection

1. aw

Quotations

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