owner

Other forms of owner

plural

owners·

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.

Questions about owner

What does owner mean?

owner means "(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in owner?

owner has 2 syllables: ow-ner. The stress falls on "ow". In IPA it is /ˈoʊnɚ/.

What is another word for owner?

Close synonyms include proprietor, possessor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is owner a common word?

owner is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.