owen Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
    Robert Owen.
  2. noun English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892)
    Sir Richard Owen.

WordNet


Ow"en adjective
Etymology
See Own.
Definitions
  1. Own. Obs. Chaucer.

Webster 1913