[
US
/ˈoʊn/
]
[ UK /ˈəʊn/ ]
[ UK /ˈəʊn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
`ain' is Scottish
do your own thing
she makes her own clothes
for your own use
VERB
-
have ownership or possession of
How many cars does she have?
He owns three houses in Florida
How To Use own In A Sentence
- Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the WN.com - Photown News
- Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
- Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010. StarTribune.com rss feed
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
- As the holiday movie season winds down, we thought we'd preview the films of 2003 to see which ones stand out and which should stand down.
- Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
- You would be hard pressed to find a young captain or major who hadn't flown combat sorties in the area of operations.
- The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
- The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
- The air had grown thick and smoky.