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owen
/ˈoʊɪn/
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What does owen mean?
proper noun
- A male given name from Welsh, an anglicization of Welsh Owain.
- A male given name from Irish, an anglicization of Irish Eoghan.
- A surname.
More meanings (9)
proper noun
- A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic] derived from the given name.
- A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], a variant of McKeown.
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn originating as a patronymic], a variant of MacEwen.
- A town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- A rural community in Wakefield council area, South Australia.
- An unincorporated community in Indiana; named for county official John Owen.
- A ghost town in Lincoln County, Missouri; named for local merchant James W. Owen.
- A minor city in Clark County, Wisconsin; named for the John S. Owen Company.
- A number of townships in the United States, including one in Illinois, four in Indiana and one in Iowa, listed under Owen Township.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈoʊɪn/
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Through the man I asked her whether there was any one of the blood of Gronwy Owen living in the house.
“That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.”—Owen Feltham.
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This is well shown in the drawings given by Owen of the bones of the leg of the horse, ox, and rhinoceros.
Prof. Richard Owen says, "Unprepossessed and sober experience teaches that arts, language, literature are of slow growth, the results of gradual development."
The fact that the dentition of the older tertiary ungulate and carnivorous mammals is always complete, noticed by Professor Owen, illustrated the same generalisation.