Adjective: own own
- Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
"do your own thing"; "she makes her own clothes"; "for your own use";
- ain [UK, dialect]
- Have ownership or possession of
"He owns three houses in Florida";
- have, possess
- Admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
"the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting";
- make a clean breast of, own up, fess up [informal], cop [N. Amer, informal], cop to [N. Amer, informal], come clean [informal], fess [informal]
Derived forms: owned, owns, owning
See also: personal
Type of: concede, confess, have, have got, hold, profess
Encyclopedia: Own