homeowner

noun

home·​own·​er ˈhōm-ˌō-nər 

: a person who owns a home

city regulations affecting homeowners and renters

Most homeowners take a pretty relaxed approach to the back of the house, even if they spend more time there than they do out front.

—Deborah Baldwin

homeowners insurance

homeownership

ˈhōm-ˌō-nər-ˌship 

noun

or home ownership

… unable to attain the upward mobility and financial stability that homeownership brought to previous American generations.

—Kirstin Downey

Examples of homeowner in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The homeowner, Thania Magana, said flight data showed a plane passing over her neighborhood at the time, according to Hahn. —Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026

Residents complained earlier this week during a recent homeowners’ association meeting for the Catalina Foothills area, where Guthrie was last seen alive. —Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2026

Seeking to combat Connecticut’s affordable housing crisis, the state Senate voted Wednesday on a bipartisan basis to allow homeowners to rent bedrooms in single-family homes without any permits or zoning approvals. —Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026

One of the homeowners’ grandparents acquired the property, an old summer camp, in the 1940s, and expanded it into a rustic family compound. —Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 16 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing homeowner

• homeowner's insurance

Rhymes for homeowner

• donor
• kroner
• kronor
• loner
• owner
• stoner
• toner
• landowner
• shipowner