transcription, транскрипция: [ oʊn ]
( owns, owning, owned)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
You use own to indicate that something belongs to a particular person or thing.
My wife decided I should have my own shop...
He could no longer trust his own judgement...
His office had its own private entrance.
ADJ : poss ADJ
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Own is also a pronoun.
He saw the Major’s face a few inches from his own.
PRON : poss PRON
2.
You use own to indicate that something is used by, or is characteristic of, only one person, thing, or group.
Jennifer insisted on her own room...
I let her tell me about it in her own way...
Each nation has its own peculiarities when it comes to doing business.
ADJ : poss ADJ
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Own is also a pronoun.
This young lady has a sense of style that is very much her own.
PRON : poss PRON
3.
You use own to indicate that someone does something without any help from other people.
They enjoy making their own decisions...
He’ll have to make his own arrangements.
ADJ : poss ADJ
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Own is also a pronoun.
There’s no career structure, you have to create your own.
PRON : poss PRON
4.
If you own something, it is your property.
His father owns a local pub...
VERB : V n
5.
If you have something you can call your own , it belongs only to you, rather than being controlled by or shared with someone else.
I would like a place I could call my own.
PHRASE
6.
If someone or something comes into their own , they become very successful or start to perform very well because the circumstances are right.
The goalkeeper came into his own with a series of brilliant saves...
PHRASE : V inflects
7.
If you get your own back on someone, you have your revenge on them because of something bad that they have done to you. ( mainly BRIT INFORMAL )
Renshaw reveals 20 bizarre ways in which women have got their own back on former loved ones.
PHRASE : V inflects , oft PHR on n
8.
If you say that someone has a particular thing of their own , you mean that that thing belongs or relates to them, rather than to other people.
He set out in search of ideas for starting a company of his own.
PHRASE : n PHR
9.
If someone or something has a particular quality or characteristic of their own , that quality or characteristic is especially theirs, rather than being shared by other things or people of that type.
The cries of the seagulls gave this part of the harbour a fascinating character all of its own.
PHRASE : n PHR
10.
When you are on your own , you are alone.
He lives on his own...
I told him how scared I was of being on my own...
= alone
PHRASE : PHR after v , v-link PHR
11.
If you do something on your own , you do it without any help from other people.
I work best on my own.
...the jobs your child can do on her own.
PHRASE : PHR after v
12.
to hold your own: see hold