Word Meanings - OWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide owns. Keats. (more info) unnan to grant; akin to OS.

Additional info about word: OWN

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. The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide owns. Keats. (more info) unnan to grant; akin to OS. giunnan, G. gönnen, Icel. unna; of

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OWN)

• Acknowledge
• Avow
• admit
• recognize
• own
• accept
• profess
• endorse
• grant
• concede
• concern
• Confess
• aver
• reveal
• disclose
• acknowledge
• Have
• Own
• possess
• feel
• entertain
• bear
• enjoy
• keep
• Possess
• Occupy
• have
• hold
• Profess
• Declare
• avow
• confess
• pretend
• proclaim
• lay claim to

Related words: (words related to OWN)

• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• POSSESSIVE
  Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• CONFESSER
  One who makes a confession.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• ACCEPT
  To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• CONFESSIONALISM
  An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
• ENJOY
  1. To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation. 2. To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy
• ENJOYER
  One who enjoys.
• ACCEPTOR
  One who accepts; specifically ,
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• PROFESSEDLY
  By profession.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• DECLAREMENT
  Declaration.
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in