own¹ /ōn/

1. To possess, have belonging to one
2. To acknowledge as one's own
3. To confess
4. To allow to be true
5. To admit, concede
6. To acknowledge, recognize
7. To claim as one's own (obsolete)
8. To dominate (an opponent) utterly (slang)

To confess (with to)

ownˈer noun

1. A possessor, proprietor
2. A captain of a warship (slang)

ownˈerless adjective

ownˈership noun

ownˈer-driˈver noun

Someone who drives his or her own vehicle

ownˈer-occupaˈtion noun

ownˈer-occˈupied adjective

ownˈer-occˈupier noun

A person who owns the house in which he or she lives

owner's equity noun

The investment by an owner in his or her business, usu calculated as its current value minus any outstanding borrowing against it

own up

To confess (often with to)

own² /ōn/

1. (preceded by possessive adj or possessive case) belonging to oneself and no-one else
2. Often used with reflexive force (my own, his own, etc) serving instead of a genitive to myself, himself, etc
3. Used with intensifying force (her (very) own room)
4. Used as an endearment (my own (darling, dear, etc))
5. Used with a force similar to the emphatic oneself, etc (as in he makes his own bed, his own worst enemy)

own-brandˈ or own-laˈbel adjective

(of a commodity) carrying the trademark or label of the store that sells it (also noun)

own goal noun

1. A goal scored by mistake against one's own team (football, etc)
2. A move that turns out to the disadvantage of the party making it

come into one's own

1. To take possession of one's rights
2. To have one's talents or merits realized

get one's own back

To retaliate, get even

hold one's own see under hold¹

of one's own

Belonging to oneself and no-one else

one's own

What belongs to oneself (as in I may do what I like with my own)

one's, etc, own man or woman

A free agent, not under another person's influence

on one's own

1. On one's own account
2. On one's own initiative
3. By one's own efforts or resources
4. Independently
5. Set up in independence
6. Alone, by oneself

owe /ō/

1. To be indebted for
2. To be under an obligation to repay or render
3. To feel as a debt or as due
4. To have to thank
5. To bear (a person a grudge)
6. To concede or be bound to concede as a handicap
7. To own (obsolete or dialect)

To be in debt

—The old pat ought and pap own, now differently used, are given separately; see also owing

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