Pawn

Noun

 * 1)  The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game.  In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.
 * 2)  Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end, usually not the end that individual would prefer.
 * Though a pawn of the gods, her departure is the precipitating cause of the Trojan War.

Verb

 * 1)  To render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games.

Noun

 * 1) The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
 * All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage.
 * 1) An instance of pawning something.
 * 2)  An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
 * 3) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 106:
 * Brokers, takers of pawns, biting userers, I will not admit; yet [...] I will tolerate some kind of usery.
 * 1)  A pawn shop, pawnbroker.

Verb

 * 1) To pledge; to stake or wager.
 * 2) To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
 * 3) * 1965, ,
 * But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

Synonyms

 * (to deposit at a pawn shop): hock

Thesaurus
Charlie McCarthy, agent, ancilla, appliance, assurance, bail, bishop, bond, borrow, bottomry, castle, chance, chessman, cog, collateral, commonality, commonalty, contrivance, creature, deposit, device, dip, dummy, dupe, earnest, earnest money, escrow, float a loan, flunky, follower, gage, gamble, get a loan, get on credit, go bail, go-between, guarantee, guaranty, handmaid, handmaiden, handsel, hazard, hit one for, hit up, hock, hoi polloi, hostage, hypothecate, impignorate, implement, inferior, instrument, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, jeopardize, junior, king, knight, lever, lightweight, lower class, lower orders, mainprise, man, masses, mechanism, mediator, medium, midwife, minion, mortgage, negotiate a loan, organ, piece, pignus, plaything, pledge, plight, pop, post, puppet, put in hock, put in pawn, put up, queen, raise money, recognizance, replevin, replevy, risk, rook, run into debt, second fiddle, secondary, security, servant, slave, spout, stake, stooge, subaltern, subordinate, surety, third stringer, token, token payment, tool, touch, toy, underling, understrapper, undertaking, vadimonium, vadium, vehicle, venture, warrant, yes-man

Pronunciation



 * Homophones: porn (in non-rhotic accents)
 * Homophones: porn (in non-rhotic accents)
 * Homophones: porn (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1
From paun:, poun: ( = Old French poon:, paon:), from  pedo:, from  pes:.

Etymology 2
From pan:, apparently from a Germanic language (compare Middle Dutch pant:, Old High German pfant:).

Noun

 * Translingual: ,
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 * Breton: pezh gwerin
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 * Indonesian: bidak,
 * Irish: ceithearnach, fichillín
 * Italian: ,
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 * Korean:,  (Oriental chess)
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 * Polish: pion,
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 * Cyrillic: пешак, пион
 * Roman: pešak, pion
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 * Thai: เบี้ย
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 * Dutch: pion, kleine man
 * Finnish:
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 * German: Bauer (rarely)
 * Greek:, υποχείριο, ενεργούμενο
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Noun

 * Dutch: verpanding
 * Finnish: panttaus
 * French: gage
 * German: Verpfändung


 * Greek:
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 * Spanish: empeño


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 * Dutch: pandjes, pandjeshuis
 * Esperanto: ,
 * French: mont-de-piété
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 * Korean: 고물상 (古物商, gomulsang)
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Verb

 * Dutch:
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 * Norwegian: pantsette
 * Romanian:
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Anagrams

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