own
自己的,拥有,自己,属于自己的
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Definitions
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- : of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself: He spent only his own money.
- : : He insists on being his own doctor.
- 1
- : to have or hold as one's own; possess: They own several homes.
- : to acknowledge or admit: to own a fault.
- : to acknowledge as one's own; recognize as having full claim, authority, power, dominion, etc.: He owned his child before the entire assembly. They owned the king as their lord.
- : to totally defeat, gain control over, or dominate in a competition: I totally owned the last two levels of the game.He owned the season from beginning to end and took the world title.
- : to take over a without authorization: The network has been owned by a hacker.
Phrases
- own medicine
- own person, be one's
- own up
- afraid of one's own shadow
- after one's own heart
- beat someone at his or her own game
- blow one's own horn
- call one's own
- close to home
- come into (one's own)
- dig one's own grave
- do one's (own) thing
- dose of one's own medicine
- get (one's own) back
- get one's (own) way
- go one's (own) way
- hold one's own
- in one's (own) interest
- in one's own backyard
- in one's own right
- in one's own world
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Yet American minimalism, isolationism, realism, mind-our-own-business-ism—whatever you want to call it—is cyclical.
This process continues today, when only a handful of vineyards with ungrafted, or “own-rooted,” vines still exist.
Just church, public festivals, and the occasional make-your-own-music night at home?
Their three children, Vittorio, Luca, and Angela (its current designer) took over the brand in the 1990s and currently co-own it.
The corner rent-to-own store also carries laptops and PCs, along with flat-screen TVs, washers-driers, and furniture of all kind.
“Follows-his-own-fancy,” she repeated, as one repeats a strange phrase, the meaning of which is obscure.
Opposite is a little, hold-your-own school-mistressy young person in pince-nez.
No wonder her father had hidden that photograph, so secretly behind her own-ashamed of having kept it!
"It's g-g-g-gone d-d-d-own the bab-b-b-back of my n-n-n-neck," sputtered Ding-dong Bell protestingly.
Couldn't a-be'n 'at she'd a-wundered off her-own-se'f; and it couldn't a-be'n 'at Steve'd take her, 'thout a-lettin' us know it.