of one's own

English

Prepositional phrase

of one's own

1. Belonging to oneself and to nobody else.

   I've always wanted a room of my own.

belonging to nobody else

• Esperanto: propra

Derived terms

• a life of its own
• in a world of one's own
• in a league of one's own
• have a mind of one's own

See also

• on one's own
• of one's own accord
• of one's own making

Further reading

• “of one's own”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “of one's own”, in Collins English Dictionary.