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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pawn1 /pɔn/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object]- to deposit (something valuable) as security, as for money borrowed, esp. with a pawnbroker:He pawned his watch to raise the money.
pawn2 /pɔn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Chessone of eight chess pieces of one color and of the lowest value.
- one used to further another person's purposes:an unwitting pawn in the power game.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pawn1 (pôn),USA pronunciation v.t. - to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, esp. with a pawnbroker:He raised the money by pawning his watch.
- to pledge; stake;
risk:to pawn one's life.
n. - the state of being deposited or held as security, esp. with or by a pawnbroker:jewels in pawn.
- something given or deposited as security, as for money borrowed.
- a person serving as security;
hostage. - the act of pawning.
- WGmc; compare Old Frisian pand, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch pant, German Pfand; (verb, verbal) derivative of the noun, nominal
- Middle French pan; Old French pan(d), pant, apparently
- (noun, nominal) 1490–1500
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged pledge.
pawn2 (pôn),USA pronunciation n. - Chessone of eight men of one color and of the lowest value, usually moved one square at a time vertically and capturing diagonally.
- someone who is used or manipulated to further another person's purposes.
- Anglo-French, equivalent. to Middle French poon, variant of paon, earlier pe(h)on literally, walker; see peon1
- Middle English poun 1325–75
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged puppet, tool, dupe.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: pawn /pɔːn/ vb (transitive)- to deposit (an article) as security for the repayment of a loan, esp from a pawnbroker
- to stake: to pawn one's honour
n - an article deposited as security
- the condition of being so deposited (esp in the phrase in pawn)
- a person or thing that is held as a security, esp a hostage
- the act of pawning
Etymology: 15th Century: from Old French pan security, from Latin pannus cloth, apparently because clothing was often left as a surety; compare Middle Flemish paen pawn, German Pfand pledgeˈpawnage n pawn /pɔːn/ n - a chessman of the lowest theoretical value, limited to forward moves of one square at a time with the option of two squares on its initial move: it captures with a diagonal move only
- a person, group, etc, manipulated by another
Etymology: 14th Century: from Anglo-Norman poun, from Old French pehon, from Medieval Latin pedō infantryman, from Latin pēs foot |