different between owner vs oner

English

Etymology

own +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?n?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n?/
• Rhymes: -??n?(?)
• Hyphenation: own?er

Noun

owner (plural owners)

1. One who owns something.

   The police recovered the stolen car and returned it to its owner.

   • 2012, Sherri Lackey, The Vrykolakas Deviation (page 117)

     Sometimes the sound was close, as the owner of the voice was wandering just on the outside walls of his living quarters.

2. (nautical, slang) The captain of a ship.

Synonyms

• (one who owns): possessor, proprietor (of a business, etc)

Derived terms

Related terms

• own

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (?n?)

Translations

Anagrams

• Rowen, rewon, rowen, worne

English

Etymology

one +? -er

Noun

oner (plural oners)

1. (informal) An extraordinary individual.
2. A small marble of little worth in children's games.
   • 2012, Nicholas Hagger, A View of Epping Forest (page 143)

     The winner was the last to flick a marble into the gully. A oner had to beat a fourer four times to win, a fourer had to beat a twelver three times, and so on.

3. (Britain) A conker that has won one match.
   • 1993, Henry Normal, Nude modelling for the afterlife

     May all your conkers be oners / May your love life fail with dishonours

   • 2005, Benedict Le Vay, Eccentric Britain (page 32)

     The history of 'oners' becoming 'sixers' through successive victories […]

   • 2006, Charles Campion, Fifty Recipes To Stake Your Life On (page 119)

     Conkers so highly prized that it's a wonder they even manage to hit the ground before being swept away to be pickled or baked and then going on to new careers as 'oners', 'twoers', and so forth.

Synonyms

• one of a kind

Anagrams

• Nero, Oren, Orne, Reno, Roen, Rone, orné, reno, reno-