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unowned
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Word definitions for unowned in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Not owned, not having an owner. v (en-past of: unown )
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having no owner [syn: ownerless ] [ant: owned ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unowned \Un*own"ed\, a. [Pref. un- not + (sense 1) owned possessed, and (sense 2) owned granted, acknowledged.] Not owned; having no owner. --Milton. Not acknowledged; not avowed. --Gay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "unpossessed," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of own (v.). From 1715 as "unacknowledged."
Usage examples of unowned.
The house looked unowned, transient, like a picture in a real-estate flyer.
And Soames, who felt the chill and the eeriness of that world-new to him and so very old: the world, unowned, visiting the scene of its past--went down and made himself tea on a spirit-lamp.
All the unowned dogs who stray into the Inns of Court and pant about staircases and other dry places seeking water give short howls of aggravation.
Slowly, the sun set, and the shapes in the hail squatted down into a darkness against which Martels was not even allowed to close his unowned eyes.
Squire over white and Indian alike on my vast diminishing holdings and the adjoining remote unowned mountain land far from the nearest county seat.
Their powerful horses of bony Belgian stock, dull-eyed monsters of old force, had been commandeered from the acre farms for ammunition trucks, and all were gone but one grey beast who cropped up and down the stone streets, unowned, nuzzling the gutters.
Norman McDiarmid had at home any boy to be compared with this unowned and nameless firstborn.
The standard problem with this is that it requires that we can make good sense of the idea of an unowned experience.
He gestured to the southward of where Tonatíu was dropping unowned into an unquilted bed behind the indistinct gray-white mountains which had kept pace with me—but kept their distance—all the way I had come through the desert.