owns meaning

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VerbBFownPRowningPT, PPowned
1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of own.
More Examples
1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - As a nation we seem to be callously indifferent to the misery of even our own compatriots, kith and kin, and stone-heartedly immune to the woes of others.
  - People always told me that owning property was a big turn-on for many women – a sign that a bloke has got it going on financially.
  - Call the huge organism by a fabled name, Briareus, the Hundredhanded, with all his tenacles swimming in his own sea of Music; thus we may mythologize the Orchestra for our fancy.
2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
  - For the masters of the Kremlin have been no less aware of the sinister potentialities of a healthy and vigorous supercolossus whose population was at least three times as large as their own.
  - Whoopie Ti Yi Yo git along little dogies. It's your misfortune and none of my own.
  - He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.

Meaning of owns for the defined word.

Grammatically, this word "owns" is a verb, more specifically, a verb form.

Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
1. Verbs
  - Verb forms
    - Verb singular forms
      - Third-person singular forms

Difficultness: Level 1

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