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owd

owd is the simple past and past participle of owe.

Meaning of owe

Verb

owe (third-person singular simple present owes, present participle owing, simple past owed or (archaic) ought, past participle owed or (archaic) ought or (archaic) own)

  1. (ditransitive) To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
    • We owe it to our children to make our nation a better place to live in the future.
  2. (intransitive) To have debt; to be in debt.
  3. (transitive) To have as a cause; used with to.
    • The record owes its success to the outstanding guitar solos.

Adjective

owd

  1. (UK, dialectal) old

Noun capitalized: OWD

OWD (countable and uncountable, plural OWDs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Open Water Diver.

Forms of owd

pluralOWDs

Questions about owd

What does owd mean?
Owd means old.
What is owd the simple past and past participle of?
Owd is the simple past and past participle of owe.
What part of speech is owd?
Owd can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near owd in the dictionary

  1. owch
  2. owche
  3. owches
  4. owchie
  5. owchies
  6. owd
  7. owdacious
  8. owdaciousness
  9. OWDs
  10. owe
  11. owe it to oneself

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Adapted from Wiktionary: owd (page history and authors); OWD (page history and authors); owe (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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