owens Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)
    James Cleveland Owens; Jesse Owens.
  2. noun Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
    Owen; Robert Owen.
  3. noun English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892)
    Owen; Sir Richard Owen.

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