Owner (root: owner)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: own=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

Owner, n. 

 One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Owner, n.
1 a person who owns something.
2 sl. the captain of a ship.

Idiom

owner-occupier a person who owns the house etc. he or she lives in.

Derivative

ownerless adj. ownership n.

THESAURUS

Owner

beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, feoffee, feudatory, holder, householder, laird, landlady, landlord, lord, master, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, possessor, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, rentier, squire, titleholder

ROGET THESAURUS

Owner

Possessor

N possessor, holder, occupant, occupier, tenant, person in possession, man in possession, renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee, zemindar, ryot, tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life, owner, proprietor, proprietress, proprietary, impropriator, master, mistress, lord, land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord, lord of the manor, lord paramount, heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord, planter, cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor, grantee, feoffee, releasee, relessee, devisee, legatee, legatary, trustee, holder of the legal estate, mortgagee, right owner, rightful owner, heir presumptive, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, reversioner, remainderman.