own
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊn/
ipa: /ɑːn/
ipa: /aʊn/
ipa: /əʊn/
enpr: ōn
ipa: /oʊn/
ipa: /uŋ/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: owne
form: 'n
Etymology: From Middle English owen, aȝen, 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”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots ain (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), Dutch, German and Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish egen (“own”), Icelandic eigin (“own”). Originally past participle of the verb at hand in English owe.
Also cognate with Sanskrit ईश्वर (īśvará, “able to do, capable of; owner, master”).
Senses: examples: text: The fathers shall not bee put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: euery man shall be put to death for his owne sinne.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 24:16:
text: Prospero: Fairely ſpoke ; / Sit then, and talke with her, ſhe is thine owne ;
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 14:
text: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom.
glosses: Not shared.
glosses: Peculiar, domestic.
glosses: Not foreign.
Derived terms: abound in one's own sense
afraid of one's own shadow
after one's own heart
after one's own soul
a good deed is its own reward
a life of its own
a prophet has no honor in his own country
a prophet is not without honor save in his own country
at one's own peril
at one's own risk
attend to one's own knitting
beat someone at their own game
believe one's own eyes
be one's own man
be one's own worst enemy
bird of one's own brain
blow one's own horn
blow one's own trumpet
bring one's own hide to market
by one's own hand
carry one's own hide to market
carry one's own weight
catch someone at their own game
chase one's own tail
choose-your-own-adventure
choose your own adventure
come into one's own
comfortable in one's own skin
cut one's own throat
devil's own
dig one's own grave
don't shit in your own nest
do one's own thing
do one's own time
dose of one's own medicine
drink one's own Kool-Aid
each to his own
each to their own
eat one's own
eat one's own dog food
every man is the architect of his own fortune
every miller draws water to his own mill
feather one's own nest
for one's own good
for one's own hand
foul one's own nest
frolic of his own
get one's own back
get one's own way
God's own country
God's own county
go one's own way
have a mind of one's own
have it your own way
have one's own zip code
high on one's own supply
hoist by one's own petard
hoisted by one's own petard
hoisted on one's own petard
hoisted with one's own petard
hoist on one's own petard
hoist with one's own petard
hold one's own
in a league of one's own
in a world of one's own
in one's own backyard
in one's own good time
in one's own little way
in one's own little world
in one's own right
in one's own time
in one's own world
it is a wise child that knows his own father
it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest
jump at one's own shadow
keep one's own counsel
keep to one's own knitting
know one's own head
know one's own mind
leave someone to their own devices
leave to one's own devices
legend in one's own lifetime
legend in one's own lunchtime
legend in one's own mind
legend in one's own time
life of its own
lift oneself up by one's own bootstraps
lift oneself up by one's own boot-tags
lift oneself up by one's own waistbands
like the sound of one's own voice
live one's own life
make a stick for one's own back
make one's own
make one's own luck
march to one's own drum
march to one's own drummer
march to the beat of one's own drum
march to the beat of one's own drummer
mind one's own business
mind your own beeswax
mind-your-own-business
no one should be judge in his own cause
off one's own back
off one's own bat
of its own head
of its own study
of one's own
of one's own accord
of one's own making
one's own boss
one's own master
one's time is one's own
on one's own
on one's own account
on one's own bat
on one's own ground
on one's own hook
on one's own time
on someone's own dime
out of one's own pocket
own-account
own brand
own goal
own label
own motion
ownness
ownself
ownsome
ownwayish
paddle one's own canoe
pay back in someone's own coin
pay one's own freight
pay one's own way
pick on someone your own size
pick-your-own
play someone at their own game
plough one's own furrow
pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps
pull one's own weight
raise oneself up by one's own bootstraps
rent-to-own
rod for one's own back
rod for one's own breech
roll one's own
roll-your-own
scratch one's own itch
sell one's own grandmother
sign one's own death warrant
smell one's own farts
smoke one's own dope
stand in one's own light
stand on its own
stand on one's own bottom
stand on one's own two feet
stew in one's own broth
stew in one's own gravy
stew in one's own grease
stew in one's own juice
stew in one's own juices
stick to one's own knitting
take law into one's own hands
take matters into one's own hands
take oneself up by one's own ears
take one's own hide to market
take one's own life
take the law into one's own hands
taste of one's own medicine
taste of one's own poison
tell its own story
tell its own tale
tend to one's own knitting
the devil looks after his own
think one is God's own cousin
to each his own
to each their own
to one's own cheek
toot one's own horn
to thine own self be true
trip over one's own two feet
under one's own steam
up one's own ass
victim of one's own success
Virtue is her own reward
virtue is its own reward
water finds its own level
water seeks its own level
with one's own eyes
write one's own ticket
you'll be late for your own funeral