If you have something you can call your own, it belongs only to you, rather than being controlled by or shared with someone else. I would like a place I could call my own
If you get your own back on someone, you have your revenge on them because of something bad that they have done to you. Renshaw reveals 20 bizarre ways in which women have got their own back on former loved ones
If you do something on your own, you do it without any help from other people. I work best on my own. the jobs your child can do on her own
If someone or something comes into their own, they become very successful or start to perform very well because the circumstances are right. The goalkeeper came into his own with a series of brilliant saves
You use own to indicate that something belongs to a particular person or thing. My wife decided I should have my own shop He could no longer trust his own judgement His office had its own private entrance. Own is also a pronoun. He saw the Major's face a few inches from his own