Other forms: owners
An owner is somebody who owns something. The owner of the house, a dog owner, change of owner.
Ownership is a bundle of rights rather than one thing — the right to use, to exclude others, to sell — and different systems divide the bundle differently, which is why leasehold and freehold both count as owning. Note that own as a verb was formed backwards from owner, which is an unusual history.
1nounownerSomebody who owns something.
“The dog's owner apologised after it jumped up at the children.”
owner is a possessor.
Old English agnere comes from agan, to possess. The verb own was formed later from the noun.
Middle English
ouner
English, today
owner
From Middle English ouner. Middle English ouner, from Old English āgnere. by surface analysis, own + -er, though etymologically own is a back-formation from owner.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA