pawn
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /pɔːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /pɔn/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /pɑn/
- (Southern US) IPA(key): /pɑɒn/
- Homophone: porn (non-rhotic)
- Rhymes: -ɔːn
Etymology 1
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From Middle English pown, from Anglo-Norman poun, paun (“footman”), from Late Latin pedōnem (“pedestrian”), derived fom Latin ped- (“foot”). Doublet of peon.
Noun
[edit]pawn (plural pawns)
- (chess) The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.
- (figurative) Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.
- Though a pawn of the gods, her departure is the precipitating cause of the Trojan War.
- 2022 December 14, Mel Holley, “Network News: Strikes go on as RMT rejects RDG's "detrimental" offer”, in RAIL, number 972, page 9:
- He delivered a broadside to the RMT leadership, saying: "This response to a significantly enhanced offer exposes their true priority - using the British public and NR workers as pawns in a fight with the Government.
Synonyms
[edit]- (chess piece): Thesaurus:pawn
- (someone manipulated): manipulee
Derived terms
[edit]- advanced pawn
- backward pawn
- bishop's pawn
- central pawn
- connected pawn
- doubled pawn
- hexapawn
- isolated pawn
- king's bishop's pawn
- king's knight's pawn
- king's pawn
- king's rook's pawn
- knight's pawn
- octopawn
- outside passed pawn
- passed pawn
- pawn break
- pawn chain
- pawn cube
- pawn island
- pawn race
- pawn storm
- poisoned pawn
- queen's bishop's pawn
- queen's knight's pawn
- queen's pawn
- queen's rook's pawn
- remote passed pawn
- rook's pawn
- tall pawn
- tripled pawn
- wrong rook pawn
Translations
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See also
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Pawn (chess) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle French pan (“pledge, security”), apparently from a Germanic language (compare Middle Dutch pant, Old High German pfant).
Noun
[edit]pawn (countable and uncountable, plural pawns)
- (uncountable) The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
- All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage.
- An instance of pawning something.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown.
- 1624, John Donne, Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, edited by John Sparrow, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, →OCLC:
- As therefore the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness, so, O Lord, let this day's comfort be the earnest of to-morrow's.
- (now rare) An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thy enemies.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- Brokers, takers of pawns, biting userers, I will not admit; yet […] I will tolerate some kind of usery.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usury”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- As for mortgaging or pawning, […] men will not take pawns without use [i.e. interest].
- (rare) A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
Translations
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Verb
[edit]pawn (third-person singular simple present pawns, present participle pawning, simple past and past participle pawned)
- To pledge; to stake or wager.
- To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
- 1904, Henry Warren, The Customer's Guide to Banking, page 7:
- A certain, and probably an appreciable, proportion of his so-called money at call and short notice would consist of fortnightly advances made to members of the Stock Exchange against pawned stocks and shares.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone:
- But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.
Synonyms
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[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]pawn (countable and uncountable, plural pawns)
- Alternative form of paan
- 1832, Meer Hassan Ali, Observations on the Mussulmauns of India:
- A tray filled with pawns, prepared with the usual ingredients, as lime cuttie (a bitter gum), betel-nut, tobacco, spices, &c.
- 1892, Chambers's Journal, volume 69, page 320:
- To our English taste, pawn is very offensive; but the natives of India relish it, and regard it as a necessity. It is much eaten by Mohammedans of both sexes, and by the natives of Bengal.
Etymology 4
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Noun
[edit]pawn (plural pawns)
- A gallery.
Etymology 5
[edit]Verb
[edit]pawn (third-person singular simple present pawns, present participle pawning, simple past and past participle pawned)
- (video games) Alternative form of pwn
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]pawn
- Alternative form of pown (“pawn”)
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