English Dictionary

own

/əʊn/

verb

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

I own a car.

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（3）

(transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

I will own my enemies.

意味（4）

(transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.

意味（5）

(online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.

意味（6）

(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.

TH15 5Y5T3M 15 0WN3D

意味（7）

(intransitive, slang) To be very good.

意味（8）

(intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.

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.

意味（9）

(transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.

Two of those fellows you must know and own.

意味（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!

意味（11）

(transitive) To take responsibility for.

意味（12）

(transitive) To answer to.

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

意味（13）

(transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.

to own one as a son

意味（14）

(transitive) To claim as one's own.

意味（15）

(intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.