owns
SayOHNZ/oʊnz/UK/əʊnz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of own.
The family owns several acres of farmland near the river.
Whoever owns the building is responsible for the repairs.
Note
The -s form that singular subjects take in the present: she owns, the company owns, whoever owns. Every meaning of own travels with it, from legal title to property and sovereignty over a territory, on into Internet slang, where one player owns another by beating them soundly and an intruder owns a server by seizing root access. Context, not form, tells these apart.
owns is a form of own
own, verb: To have something as one's rightful property, or to hold possession or control of something such as land or territory. Full entry
- Spelling
- own → owns: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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