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say it: ohn
own is a verb and adjective meaning "have ownership or possession of". It carries 2 recorded senses.
have ownership or possession of
“He owns three houses in Florida”
“How many cars does she have?”
belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
“for your own use”
“do your own thing”
“she makes her own clothes”
“`ain' is Scottish”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for own come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.