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chowning

chowning is the present participle and gerund 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)

Proper noun capitalized: Chowning

Chowning (plural Chownings)

  1. A surname.

Forms of chowning

pluralChownings

Questions about chowning

What does chowning mean?
Chowning means a surname.
What is chowning the present participle and gerund of?
Chowning is the present participle and gerund of chown.
What part of speech is chowning?
Chowning is a proper noun.

Words near chowning in the dictionary

  1. chowmeinery
  2. chown
  3. chowned
  4. chownee
  5. chownees
  6. chowning
  7. Chownings
  8. chowns
  9. chowpal
  10. chowpals
  11. chowpatties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chowning (page history and authors); Chowning (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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