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What does own mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word own? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
  2. (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
  3. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
  4. (transitive) To claim as one's own; to answer to.
  5. (intransitive) To acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of.
  6. (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
  7. (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
  8. (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
  9. (computing) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
Adjective
  1. Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
  2. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
  3. (obsolete) Not foreign.
Verb
  1. (transitive, obsolete) To grant; give.
  2. (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
  3. (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
  4. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To confess.
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