Read full poem →Had I but her, ah, what the gain
Of owning aught but that domain!
Nay, heaven's extent, however much,
Dictionary Entry
To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
In a Sentence
“I own this car.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
land owningclass owningproperty owningowning person
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Poetry examples for “owning”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To prove our loyal truth-we can no more,
And owning Heaven’s mysterious sway,
Submissive, low adore.
Read full poem →Tickell did not deny it, which, considering his honour and zeal for
his departed friend, was the same as owning it.”
Read full poem →whose surname is not given. He settled in Dorchester,
then Boston, and became a landholder, owning land in
the town and an island of sixteen acres in Boston Bay,
Read full poem →Ever with pleas’d smile I may keep on,
Ever and ever yet the verses owning--as, first, I here and now
Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name,
Read full poem →(No more credulity's race, abiding-temper'd race,)
Race henceforth owning no law but the law of itself,
Race of passion and the storm.