Own

Verb

 * 1)  To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); "To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to." (Ref 1)
 * I own this car.
 * 1) To claim as one's own; to answer to.
 * 2) * 1902, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Tank Books 2007, p. 25:
 * I am sorry to own I began to worry then.
 * 1)  To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
 * I will own my enemies.
 * If he wins, he will own you.
 * 1)  To virtually or figuratively enslave.
 * 2)  To illicitly obtain "super-user" or "root" access into a computer system thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
 * 3)  To admit to be true; concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny; to admit to be true. (Ref 2)
 * 4)  To acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of. (Ref 3)

Synonyms

 * to possess
 * be responsible for, admit or take responsibility for
 * confess, acknowledge, allow
 * beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best

Derived terms

 * owndom
 * on one's own
 * own up
 * owner
 * pwned
 * disown

Adjective

 * 1) Belonging to; possessed; proper to;
 * Surprisingly, I realised my own brother had the same idea as me.
 * You need to find your own seat - this one is mine.
 * He gave her a pen, because he already had his own.
 * The restored Maxwell is Bob's own car.
 * They went this way, but we need to find our own way.
 * We have made some arrangements, but you will need to make your own.
 * They were all prepared for the picnic, because they had all brought their own food and plates.
 * 1)  peculiar, domestic;
 * 2)  not foreign;

Verb

 * 1)  To recognise, to acknowledge responsibility for, to admit to be true.
 * 2) * 1611, Shakespeare, The Tempest, v.:
 * Two of those fellows you must know and own.
 * 1) * 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!
 * 1)  To confess.

Thesaurus
accept, acknowledge, admit, admit everything, agree provisionally, allow, assent grudgingly, avow, by one, come clean, concede, confess, cop a plea, enjoy, express general agreement, free and clear, go along with, grant, have, have title to, held, hold, in fee, in fee simple, in hand, in seisin, in stock, in store, let on, not oppose, on hand, open up, out with it, own up, owned, plead guilty, possess, possessed, recognize, retain, spill, spill it, spit it out, tell all, tell the truth, warrant, yield

Etymology 1
From ownen:, from  agnian:. Cognate with German eignen:, Swedish ägna:, Icelandic eiga:.

Etymology 2
From owen:, aȝen:, from  agen:, from, from. Cognate with ain:,  eigen:,  eigen:,  egen:,  eigin:.

Etymology 3
From unnen:, from  unnan:, from, from. Akin to German gönnen: ( < Old High German gi-: + unnan:), Old Norse unna: (Danish unde:). In Gothic only the substantive 𐌰𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃: is attested.

Verb

 * Arabic: (málaka)
 * Chinese: 拥有 (yōng yǒu)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: eiga
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: Note that Hebrew has no translation for this term, but has for to be owned: היה (except present tense)., שייך (shayakh)
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 所有する (しょゆうする, shoyū suru)
 * Korean: 소유하다 (soyuhada)
 * Latin: possideo, habeo
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: владеть, обладать, иметь
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: dalabön


 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 打败 (dǎbài)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 負かす (まかす, makasu)


 * Korean: 지우다 (jiuda)
 * Norwegian: beseire
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: побеждать
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * : proprietar
 * : āgan

Adjective

 * Afrikaans: eie
 * Arabic:,  (nafs)
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 自己
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: propre (used before the noun)
 * German: eigen- (declinated according to gender and case) (used before the noun)


 * Hindi: अपना
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: proprio (used before the noun)
 * Japanese: 自身
 * Korean: 자기
 * Latin: proprius
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, собственный
 * Spanish: propio
 * Swedish:, ,

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * German: eingestehen, zugeben
 * Russian: признавать


 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, tillstå, vidgå

Anagrams

 * now, NOW
 * won