“owneth” is a form of
own
UK /əʊn/ · US /oʊn/ adjective, verb, noun
Also a form of owe
Forms owns owning owned ain 'n owne
- adjective Belonging to; possessed; acquired and designated by; 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.
- adjective Not shared. “When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom.”
- adjective (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
- adjective (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. “I own this car.”
- verb (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. “The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.”
- verb (transitive, informal) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. “I will own my enemies.”
- verb (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- verb (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above.
- verb (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).
- verb (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
- verb (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.
- noun (Internet slang) A crushing insult.
Synonyms
to possess acquire have to one's name property of title to pwn beat defeat overcome overthrow vanquish have take best 0wn possess ain
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English oun, owen, from Old English āgen (“own, proper, peculiar”), originally the past participle of āgan; from Proto-West Germanic *aigan (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to have, possess”). Doublet of eigen-.
Cognate with Scots ain, awin, awn, ayn (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), West Frisian, Dutch, and German eigen (“own”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish egen (“own”), Faroese egin (“own”), Icelandic eigin, eiginn (“own”), Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”); also Ossetian исын (isyn, “to take”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B aik- (“to know, recognize”), Sanskrit ईश (īśa, “owning, possessing”). Originally past participle of the verb at hand in English owe.
A back-formation from owner. Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.
- adjective Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; --most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price. "No man was his own [i. e., no man was master of himself, or in possession of his senses]." Shak. To hold one's own, to keep or maintain one's possessions; to yield nothing; esp., to suffer no loss or disadvantage in a contest. Shak.
- verb To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.
Etymology [OE. unnen to grant, permit, be pleased with, AS. unnan to grant; akin to OS. giunnan, G. gönnen, Icel. unna; of uncertain origin. This word has been confused with own to possess.]
Etymology [OE. owen, awen, auen, aughen, AS. agen, p. p. of agan to possess; akin to OS. egan, G. & D. eigen, Icel. eiginn, Sw. & Dan. egen. sq. root110. See Owe.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “own”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details