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Definition of Own

Own

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

Own Quotations

Bill Copeland Quote
Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
Bill Copeland

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
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Own Translations

own in Afrikaans is besit, eie
own in Danish is egen, besidde, eje
own in Dutch is rijk zijn, bezitten, erop nahouden
own in Finnish is oma, omistaa
own in German is eigen, eigene, besitzen, eigen, zugeben
own in Italian is proprio, possedere
own in Spanish is propio, poseer, conceder

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