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own
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???n/
- (US) enPR: ?n, IPA(key): /?o?n/
- (Hong Kong) IPA(key): /?u?/
- Rhymes: -??n
Etymology 1
From Middle English owen, a?en, from Old English ?gen (“own, proper, peculiar”), from Proto-West Germanic *aigan (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey?- (“to have, possess”).
Alternative forms
- 'n (informal contraction)
Adjective
own
- Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
- Not shared
- (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
- (obsolete) Not foreign.
Usage notes
- Often used for implication of ownership, often with emphasis. In modern usage, it always follows a possessive determiner, or a noun in the possessive case.
Derived terms
- be one's own worst enemy
- come into one's own
- hoist by one's own petard
- one's own boss
- on one's own
Translations
Etymology 2
A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English ?gnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.
Verb
own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)
- (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
- I own this car.
- (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
- (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- I will own my enemies.
- If he wins, he will own you.
- (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
- 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.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
- (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
- 1611, Shakespeare, The Tempest, v.:
- Two of those fellows you must know and own.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 1, Jocelin of Brakelond
- It must be owned, the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things!
- 1611, Shakespeare, The Tempest, v.:
- (transitive) To take responsibility for.
- (transitive) To answer to.
- (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
- to own one as a son
- (transitive) To claim as one's own.
- (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To confess.
Synonyms
- (have rightful possession of): to possess
- (defeat): beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best
Antonyms
- (admit): disown
Derived terms
Translations
References
- 1896, Universal Dictionary of the English Language [UDEL], v3 p3429:
- To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to.
- 1896, ibid., UDEL
- 1896, ibid., UDEL
- 1896, ibid., UDEL
Anagrams
- NOW, NWO, now, won
Portuguese
Interjection
own
- aw (used to express affection)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:own.
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beget
English
Etymology
From Middle English begeten, bi?eten, from Old English be?ietan (“to get, find, acquire, attain, receive, take, seize, happen, beget”), [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")] from Proto-Germanic *bigetan? (“to find, seize”), equivalent to be- +? get. Cognate with Old Saxon bigetan (“to find, seize”), Old High German bigezan (“to gain, achieve, win, procure”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /bi???t/, /b????t/, /b????t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Verb
beget (third-person singular simple present begets, present participle begetting, simple past begot or (archaic) begat, past participle begotten or (rare) begot) (transitive)
- To father; to sire; to produce (a child).
- 2003, William H. Frist, Shirley Wilson, Good People Beget Good People: A Genealogy of the Frist Family, Rowman & Littlefield (?ISBN), page 110:
- I believe good people beget good people. If you marry the right person, then you will have good children. But everywhere else in life, too, good people beget good people. In your work, when you hire good people, they, in turn, will hire good ...
- 2003, William H. Frist, Shirley Wilson, Good People Beget Good People: A Genealogy of the Frist Family, Rowman & Littlefield (?ISBN), page 110:
- To cause; to produce.
- To bring forth.
- 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholmew Fayre, Induction:
- If there bee neuer a Seruant-mon?ter i' the Fayre, who can helpe it, he ?ayes ; nor a ne?t of Antiques ? ? Hee is loth to make Nature afraid in his Playes, like tho?e that beget Tales, Tempe?ts, and ?uch like Drolleries, […]
- 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholmew Fayre, Induction:
- (Britain dialectal) To happen to; befall.
Derived terms
- begetter
- begetting
- begotten
Related terms
- begettal, ill-begotten, misbegotten, unbegot, unbegotten, forebegotten
Translations
See also
- sire
References
- beget in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- beget in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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