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

Since then, Tran and his family have joined the ranks of elite Bay Area holiday lights enthusiasts — individual homeowners or groups of neighbors who really get into the holiday spirit, a number of whom are spotlighted here in our annual list of the Bay Area’s best holiday lights displays. —Martha Ross, Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2025

Council members are seeking a $5,000 per room tax on homeowners who don’t occupy or rent their homes. —U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2025

Declining commercial and apartment values are shifting more property tax burden to homeowners this year, according to Ramsey County’s tax office, with properties in Frogtown, Payne-Phalen, the North End and the West Side likely to see some of the largest percentage increases. —Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 24 Nov. 2025

Adoptive parents can be single, married, or partnered; experienced or not; renters or homeowners; LGBTQ+ singles and couples. —Mare Staff, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025

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