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How to pronounce “own”
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Pronunciation guide for own
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of own with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Shadow Work
I knew slightly who was a partner at a downtown law firm.
- Definition summary
- Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce own
Shadow Work
I knew slightly who was a partner at a downtown law firm.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “own”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. 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.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
- (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.
- (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above.
- (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.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
- (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
- (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
- (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
- (transitive) To take responsibility for.
- (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
- (transitive) To claim as one's own.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
- [Noun]
- (Internet slang) A crushing insult.
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