Antonyms for owns


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ohn
Phonetic Transcription : oÊŠn


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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