Own vs Belong - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between own and belong

is that own is to acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of. (Ref 3 while belong is to have its proper place.

As verbs the difference between own and belong

is that own is to have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); "To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to." (Ref 1 while belong is to have its proper place.

As an adjective own

is belonging to; possessed; proper to.

As a preposition belong is

of, belonging to.

own

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia own) From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) (m). See also the related term (m).

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); "To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to." (Ref 1)

I own this car.

(lb) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.

* 1902 , Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness , Tank Books 2007, p. 25:

I am sorry to own I began to worry then.

* 1913 ,

They learned how perfectly peaceful the home could be. And they almost regretted—though none of them would have owned to such callousness—that their father was soon coming back.

(lb) To claim as one's own; to answer to.

* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.

(lb) To acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of. (Ref 3)

(lb) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

I will own my enemies.

If he wins, he will own you.

(lb) To virtually or figuratively enslave.

To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled (m).

To illicitly obtain "super-user" or "root" access into a computer system thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.

Synonyms

* (have rightful possession of) to possess * (acknowledge responsibility for) be responsible for, admit or take responsibility for * (admit) confess, acknowledge, allow * (defeat) beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best

Derived terms

* owndom * own up * owner * pwn * disown

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), .

Alternative forms

* (informal contraction)

Adjective

(en determiner)

Belonging to; possessed; proper to.

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(obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.

(obsolete) Not foreign.

Usage notes

* implying ownership, often with emphasis. It always follows a possessive pronoun, or a noun in the possessive case.

Derived terms

* come into one's own * on one's own

Etymology 3

From (etyl) is attested. Etymology] of the German cognate in [[:w:de:Deutsches Wörterbuch, Deutsches Wörterbuch]

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To grant; give.

To admit; concede; acknowledge.

* 1611 , Shakespeare, The Tempest , v.:

Two of those fellows you must know and own .

* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. 1, ''Jocelin of Brakelond

It must be owned , the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things!

To recognise; acknowledge.

to own one as a son

To confess.

Statistics

References

* 1896 , Universal Dictionary of the English Language [UDEL] , v3 p3429: *: To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to. * 1896 , ibid., UDEL * 1896 , ibid., UDEL * 1896 , ibid., UDEL * Notes:

Anagrams

* (l), (l), (l) 200 English basic words 1000 English basic words

belong

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) belongen, from .

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To have its proper place.

# (label) To be accepted in a group.

# To be a part of a group.

To be part of, or the property of.

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To be the spouse or partner of. (rfex)

(followed by'' to''') To be an element of (a set). The symbol $\in$ means '''''belongs to .

To be deserved by.

* (rfdate) (Ben Jonson)

More evils belong us than happen to us.

Derived terms

* belonging * belongingness

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Etymology 2

Compare Kriol blanga'', Bislama ''blong'', Tok Pisin ''bilong'', and Torres Strait Creole ''blong .

Alternative forms

* blung * , belonga, blonga

Preposition

(English prepositions)

Of, belonging to.

* 1915, E. R. Masson, Untamed Territory

Jim Campbell, Charlie, Dick, ... Fred, lubra b’longa him, me, thass all.

* 1936, M. & E. Durack, Chunuma

By an’ bye ’im grow ’m up make ’m good fella stockman b’longta you.

* 1977, N. Kolig, Playing Alonga Mud

Those who had persevered with the course and had acquired some skill were now almost deferentially called ‘Maban (expert) belonga clay’.

* 1986, Kowanyama News, Dec.

Them two bin help’m too, and that father blung to this one old Frank.

* 1986, B. Shaw, Countrymen

There’s the bloke that’s kill that feller, uncle belong you an me.

* 1991, D. B. Rose, Hidden Histories

Get that fire [wood] stacked up like that tree there, that high ... It wasn’t wood belong to that fire pile. Might be for station, or somebody else, you know.