[oh-ner] 
| a person who owns; possessor; proprietor. |
[ohn] | 1. | of, pertaining 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. |
| 2. | (used as an intensifier to indicate oneself as the sole agent of some activity or action, prec. by a possessive): He insists on being his own doctor. |
| 3. | to have or hold as one's own; possess: They own several homes. |
| 4. | to acknowledge or admit: to own a fault. |
| 5. | 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. |
| 6. | to confess (often fol. by to, up, or up to): The one who did it had better own up. I own to being uncertain about that. |
| 7. | come into one's own,
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| 8. | get one's own back, to get revenge and thereby a sense of personal satisfaction, as for a slight or a previous setback; get even with somebody or something: He saw the award as a way of getting his own back for all the snubs by his colleagues. |
| 9. | hold one's own,
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| 10. | of one's own, belonging to oneself: She had never had a room of her own. |
| 11. | on one's own,
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| own (ōn) adj. Of or belonging to oneself or itself: She makes her own clothes. n. That which belongs to one: I wanted a room of my own. v. owned, own·ing, owns v. tr.
To make a full confession or acknowledgment: When confronted with the evidence the thief owned up. See Synonyms at acknowledge. [Middle English owen, from Old English āgen; see aik- in Indo-European roots.] own'er n. |
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