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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.
own From the web:
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- what owns disney
- what owns lamborghini
- what owning a pitbull says about you
- what owns tiktok
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- what owns snapchat
- what ownership means
typical
English
Alternative forms
- typicall (obsolete)
Etymology
From Late Latin typicalis, from Latin typicus (“typical”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (tupikós, “of or pertaining to a type, conformable, typical”), from ????? (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), equivalent to typic, type + -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?p?kl?/
- Hyphenation: typ?i?cal
Adjective
typical (comparative more typical, superlative most typical)
- Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
- Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
- Normal, average; to be expected.
- (taxonomy) Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:common
Antonyms
- atypical
Derived terms
- typicality
- typically
- typicalness
Related terms
- typal
- type
- typic
Translations
See also
- gestalt
- gist
- resemblance
- emblematic
- prefigurative
- distinctive
Noun
typical (plural typicals)
- Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.
- Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.
- Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.
Further reading
- typical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- typical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- clay pit, claypit
typical From the web:
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- what typically connects a cpu to ram
- what typically happens with common goods
- what typically carries a credit balance
- what typically precedes a party realignment
- what is the nonfarm payrolls
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