Owen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoʊɪn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊɪn/
• Rhymes: -əʊɪn
• Rhymes: -əʊən

Proper noun

Owen

1. A male given name from Welsh, an anglicization of Welsh Owain.
2. A male given name from Irish, an anglicization of Irish Eoghan.
3. derived from the given name.
4. , a variant of McKeown.
5. , a variant of MacEwen.
6. A town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
7. A city in Wisconsin; named for the John S. Owen Company.
8. A community of South Australia.
9. An unincorporated community in Indiana; named for county official John Owen.
10. A ghost town in Missouri; named for local merchant James W. Owen.

Quotations

• 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  : Act II, Scene II:

  This Edmund, in the reign of Bolingbroke,

  As I have read, laid claim unto the crown;

  And but for Owen Glendower, had been king,

  Who kept him in captivity till he died.

Translations

town in Germany

• Swabian: Aoe
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Anagrams

• enow, owne, wone

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Cebuano

Etymology

From English Owen.

Proper noun

Owen

1. a male given name from Welsh

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German ouwe (“terrain, landscape by water, in water, island”). Doublet of Aue (“floodplain”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯ən/

Proper noun

Owen n (proper noun, strong, genitive Owens)

1. Owen (a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany)