own

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
own/əʊn/

▶adjective & pronoun (with a possessive) belonging or relating to the person specified.

■ done or produced by the person specified.

■ particular to the person or thing specified; individual.

▶verb

• 1 possess; have.

• 2 formal admit or acknowledge that something is the case.

• 3 (own up) admit to having done something wrong or embarrassing.

– phrases
be one's own man (or woman) act independently.
come into its (or one's) own become fully recognized or effective.
hold one's own retain a position of strength in a challenging situation.

– derivatives
-owned adjective.

– origin OE āgen ‘owned, possessed’, past part. of āgan ‘owe’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
very/ˈveri/

▶adverb in a high degree.

■ (with superlative or own) without qualification: the very best quality.

▶adjective

• 1 actual; precise: his very words.

  ■ archaic real; genuine.

• 2 emphasizing an extreme point in time or space.

• 3 with no addition; mere.

– phrases
not very

• 1 in a low degree.

• 2 far from being.

very good (or well) an expression of consent.

– origin ME: from OFr. verai, based on L. verus ‘true’.