ownership

Other forms of ownership

plural

ownerships·

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 ownership

What does ownership mean?

ownership means "the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ownership?

ownership has 3 syllables: ow-ner-ship. The stress falls on "ow". In IPA it is /ˈoʊnɚˌʃɪp/.

What is another word for ownership?

Close synonyms include possession. 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 ownership a common word?

ownership is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ownership?

54 words rhyme with ownership. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.