Word Finder - own

definition

Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.

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Not shared

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When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom.

definition

Peculiar, domestic.

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Not foreign.

Was it greedy to want one of their own as well?

They must be cultivating their own language.

Sorry, but I have my own troubles.

His own people despised him for his wickedness.

My own dear loving father!

Every time you buy a book from Amazon, its employees use your data—information about what you did on their site in the privacy of your own home—to try to sell other people more products.

And it really is composed of two separate components that need to be understood in their own right.

He makes his own rules.

What he has taught we have seen beautifully expressed in his own life--love of country, kindness to the least of his brethren, and a sincere desire to live upward and onward.

I describe these three situations because each, in its own way, illustrates how I think the future will play out regarding income and wealth.

Considering her own feelings about Alex, and the fact that he was a lot like his father, it wasn't hard to imagine that his mother never got over Señor Medena.

So whether you are rich or poor in the future, you will own this pan and get this benefit.

However, in this case my pains were their own reward.

She had been so distracted with her own troubles that his interests and needs had been ignored.

Can you see your own future?

I don't think you're as afraid of me as you are of your own feelings.

I'll see what I can do on my own.

You're as safe with the Reverend as with your own mother if that's what you're worried about.

The arrival of these texts—as well as Byzantium's own architecture, science, and art—triggered a sensory and intellectual explosion, which became the cultural movement we now call the Renaissance.

She would have to accept the fact that she was on her own with the baby.

When computers are in your clothes, medicine, eyeglasses, wallet, tires, walls, makeup, jewelry, cookware, tennis shoes, binoculars, and everything else you own, those things will do more than you can imagine—the stuff of science fiction.

I'm just wondering if we should tell them, for their own protection.

You own Bird Song.

My friends thought we might have one or two pupils in our own home, thereby securing to me the advantage of being helpful to others without any of the disadvantages of a large school.

When the Indiana visited Halifax, we were invited to go on board, and she sent her own launch for us.

Miss Keller's effort to reach out and meet other people on their own intellectual ground has kept her informed of daily affairs.

The world to her is what her own mind is.

Every path but your own is the path of fate.

Howie is his own person.

After the war, in 1947, Jonas Salk was offered his own laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

You could begin studying something you have noticed anecdotally in your own life.

What we call "heart disease" will become hundreds of individual conditions each with its own cause and, hopefully, cure.

Etsy allows people to trade their crafts, items they have made with their own hands and materials.

Last night when I got in bed, she stole into my arms of her own accord and kissed me for the first time, and I thought my heart would burst, so full was it of joy.

Helen went to the cradle and felt of Mildred's mouth and pointed to her own teeth.

If I refuse to talk to her, she spells into her own hand, and apparently carries on the liveliest conversation with herself.

Helen's pencil-writing is excellent, as you will see from the enclosed letter, which she wrote for her own amusement.

She wrote it out of her own head, as the children say.

She has begun to use the pronouns of her own accord.

Another said, "Damn me! but I'd give everything I own in the world to have that little girl always near me."

I regard my pupil as a free and active being, whose own spontaneous impulses must be my surest guide.

Finally she one day demanded a name for the power, the existence of which she had already conceived in her own mind.

Teachers can draw their own conclusions.

If, then, we would indeed restore mankind by truly Indian, botanic, magnetic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our own brows, and take up a little life into our pores.

But when the several nations of Europe had acquired distinct though rude written languages of their own, sufficient for the purposes of their rising literatures, then first learning revived, and scholars were enabled to discern from that remoteness the treasures of antiquity.

Keep on your own track, then.

It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;--a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush--this the light dust-cloth--which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still.

Enjoy the land, but own it not.

Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or street, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines because it breathes its own breath over again; their shadows, morning and evening, reach farther than their daily steps.