3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

owner

noun

1: (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants" [syn: {proprietor}]

2: a person who owns something; "they are searching for the owner of the car"; "who is the owner of that friendly smile?" [syn: {possessor}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Owner \Own"er\, noun One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. --Shak.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

25 Moby Thesaurus words for "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

  Definitions retrieved from local copies of the freely distributed DICT client/server software and databases. Click here for database copyright information.