Definitions for pawn

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Spelling: [pawn]

IPA: /pɔn/

Pawn is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in pawn (anpw).

Definitions for pawn

noun

1. the state of being deposited or held as security, especially with or by a pawnbroker:
2. something given or deposited as security, as for money borrowed.
3. a person serving as security; hostage.
4. the act of pawning.
5. Chess. one of eight men of one color and of the lowest value, usually moved one square at a time vertically and capturing diagonally.
6. someone who is used or manipulated to further another person's purposes.

verb (used with object)

1. to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker:
2. to pledge; stake; risk:

Origin of pawn

1490-1500; (noun) Middle French pan; Old French pan(d), pant, apparently West Germanic; compare Old Frisian pand, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch pant, German Pfand; (v.) derivative of the noun

Examples for pawn

The Honourable George had lost; so I, his pawn, must also submit like a dead sport.

They were getting more imaginative,” a pawn shop owner thinks of his addict customers in “Back of Beyond.

The young man had no comprehension of the fact that he was only a pawn in the game.

I gave the man all my spare clothes in pawn, and walked away from his house.

Yet, she is still very much a pawn in the system—her body is actively sold to the highest bidder.

“Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.

With Suzanne, Vee saw someone who could be a pawn in her chess game.

Cyrus knows that he went too far, but he did still use his husband as a pawn in his own schemes.

You don't think me nice enough, do you, now that you've made me pawn all my dresses?

Thus it is: My castle and my lands are in pawn for a debt that I owe.