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Definitions for Owner
[1] a person who owns; possessor; proprietor.
[2] of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
[3] (used as an intensifier to indicate oneself as the sole agent of some activity or action, preceded by a possessive): He insists on being his own doctor.
[4] to have or hold as one's own; possess: They own several homes.
[5] to acknowledge or admit: to own a fault.
[6] to acknowledge as one's own; recognize as having full claim, authority, power, dominion, etc.: He owned his child before the entire assembly. They owned the king as their lord.
[7] to totally defeat, gain control over, or dominate in a competition: I totally owned the last two levels of the game. He owned the season from beginning to end and took the world title.
[8] to take over a (a computer system, program, or computer) without authorization: The network has been owned by a hacker.
[9] to confess (often followed by to, up, or up to ): The one who did it had better own up. I own to being uncertain about that.
[10] a person who owns; legal possessor
[11] (intensifier) John's own idea ; your own mother (as pronoun ) I'll use my own
[12] on behalf of oneself or in relation to oneself he is his own worst enemy
[13] come into one's own to become fulfilled she really came into her own when she got divorced to receive what is due to one
[14] get one's own back informal to have revenge
[15] hold one's own to maintain one's situation or position, esp in spite of opposition or difficulty
[16] on one's own without help by oneself; alone
[17] (tr) to have as one's possession
[18] (when intr, often foll by up, to, or up to ) to confess or admit; acknowledge
[19] (tr; takes a clause as object) rare to concede I own that you are right
Words related to Owner
partner, proprietor, holder, landowner, squire, heir, governor, possessor, keeper, purchaser, heritor, sharer, heiress, legatee, titleholder
Words nearby Owner
own brand, own goal, own medicine, own person, be one's, own up, owner, owner-occupied, owner-occupier, owner-operator, ownership, ownership flat
Origin of Owner
before 900; (adj.) Middle English owen, Old English āgen (cognate with German eigen, Old Norse eigenn ), orig. past participle of āgan to possess (see owe); (v.) Middle English ownen, Old English āgnian, āhnian, derivative of āgen
Other words from Owner
non·own·er , noun
non·own·ing , adjective
un·owned , adjective
Word origin for Owner
Old English āgen, originally past participle of āgan to have; related to Old Saxon ēgan, Old Norse eiginn. See owe
Synonyms for Owner
holder, landowner, partner, proprietor, governor, heir, heiress, heritor, keeper, legatee, possessor, purchaser, sharer, squire, heir-apparent, something buyer, titleholder