own

adj

1. (not-comparable)Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.

   “The fathers shall not bee put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: euery man shall be put to death for his owne sinne.”

   “Prospero: Fairely ſpoke ; / Sit then, and talke with her, ſhe is thine owne ;”

   “I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.”

   “He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.”

   “The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.”

2. (not-comparable)Not shared.

   “When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom.”

3. (not-comparable, obsolete)Peculiar, domestic.
4. (not-comparable, obsolete)Not foreign.

verb

1. (transitive)To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.

   “I own this car.”

2. (transitive)To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.

   “The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.”

3. (informal, transitive)To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

   “I will own my enemies.”

   “If he wins, he will own you.”

   “All the ‘Milo OWNS stupid feminist’ type of videos today are made with much the same style as the new atheist videos that were equally numerous on YouTube a few years before with titles like ‘HITCHSLAP. Hitchens OWNS stupid Christian woman’.”

4. (transitive)To virtually or figuratively enslave.
5. (Internet, slang)To defeat, dominate, or be above.
6. (slang, transitive)To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).

   “"TH15 5Y5T3M 15 0WN3D"”

7. (intransitive, slang)To be very good.
8. (intransitive)To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.

   “I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.”

   “For instance, when I flung the cat out of an upper window (though I did it from no ill-feeling, and it didn't hurt the cat), I was ready, after a moment's reflection, to own I was wrong, as a gentleman should.”

   “I am sorry to own I began to worry then.”

   “They learned how perfectly peaceful the home could be. And they almost regretted—though none of them would have owned to such callousness—that their father was soon coming back.”

9. (transitive)To acknowledge.

   “I must own that I have been at fault all this time.”

   “Two of those fellows you must know and own.”

   “It must be owned, the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things!”

10. (transitive)To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.

    “"Well, I'm not hiding anymore! I'm owning my girly looks with cute short pink hair!"”

11. (transitive)To take responsibility for.

    “Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, told reporters that Democrats “own” the assassination of Mr. Kirk. When a reporter questioned her about attacks on Democrats, she cut him off. “Democrats own this,” she said. “We’re talking about Charlie Kirk right now.””

12. (transitive)To recognise.

    “I own him as a son of my own.”

13. (transitive)To claim as one's own.
14. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To confess.

noun

1. (Internet)A crushing insult.

   “the amount of bigots that just screenshot my profile thinking it's the biggest own is insane.”