Antonyms for owns

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ohn

Phonetic Transcription : oʊn

Definition of owns

Origin : Old English agen "one's own," literally "possessed by," from Proto-Germanic *aigana- "possessed, owned" (cf. Old Saxon egan, Old Frisian egin, Old Norse eiginn, Dutch eigen, German eigen "own"), from past participle of PIE *aik- "to be master of, possess," source of Old English agan "to have" (see owe).

verb possess; be responsible for
verb acknowledge, admit

Example sentences :

Religious to go and take the land away from people that owns it?
Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Who owns the grave in the great plain, Proud his hand upon his spear?
Extract from : « Y Gododin » by Aneurin

It isn't imitation, and it'll teach you to respect the lady who owns it.
Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola

The lawyer says the woman that owns the mortgage has got to have the money.
Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet

For this happy result Mrs. Carriswood owns a share of the credit.
Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet

She's got some money of her own, owns cranberry swamps and I don't know what all.
Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln

He must have used every cent he owns, and I didn't suppose he owned any, scarcely.
Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln

He owns cranberry bogs from one end of the Cape to the other.
Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Now it seems that there is a man up in the mountains who owns that name.
Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine

Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond.
Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Synonyms for owns

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