Usually means: Possess something as personal property.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word own:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. own: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. own: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. own: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. own: Collins English Dictionary
  5. own: Vocabulary.com
  6. Own, own, own: Wordnik
  7. own: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. own: Wiktionary
  9. own: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. own: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. own: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. own: Dictionary.com
  13. own (adj.), own (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. own: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. OWN (disambiguation), OWN, Own: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Own: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. own: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. own: Rhymezone
  19. own: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. own: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. own: Free Dictionary
  22. own: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. own: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. own: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. own: Law.com Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. own: Glossary of research economics
  6. own: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. own: Hacking Lexicon
  2. own: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. own: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. OWN: Acronym Finder
  2. OWN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. own: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. own: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See owned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  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.
adjective:  Not shared.
adjective:  (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not foreign.
verb:  (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
verb:  (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
verb:  (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
verb:  (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
verb:  (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
verb:  (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
verb:  (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
verb:  (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
verb:  (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
verb:  (transitive) To take responsibility for.
verb:  (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
verb:  (transitive) To claim as one's own.
verb:  (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
noun:  (Internet slang) A crushing insult.

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