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chowned

chowned is the simple past and past participle of chown.

Meaning of chown

Verb

chown (third-person singular simple present chowns, present participle chowning, simple past and past participle chowned)

  1. (Unix, transitive) To change the owner of (a file or directory).
    • When chowning a file, simply use: chown flags username:groupname2006, Eric Rosebrock, Eric Filson, Setting up LAMP (page 49)

Questions about chowned

What is chowned the simple past and past participle of?
Chowned is the simple past and past participle of chown.

Words near chowned in the dictionary

  1. chowlines
  2. chowmein
  3. chowmeineries
  4. chowmeinery
  5. chown
  6. chowned
  7. chownee
  8. chownees
  9. chowning
  10. Chownings
  11. chowns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chowned (page history and authors); chown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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