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chowns

chowns is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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: Chowns

Chowns

  1. A surname.

Questions about chowns

What does chowns mean?
Chowns means a surname.
What is chowns the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chowns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chown.
What part of speech is chowns?
Chowns is a proper noun.

Words near chowns in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chowns (page history and authors); Chowns (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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