pawn
IPA: pˈɔn
noun
- (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.
- (uncountable) The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
- An instance of pawning something.
- (now rare) An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
- (rare) A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
- A gallery.
- Alternative form of paan [A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf.]
verb
- To pledge; to stake or wager.
- To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
- (video games) Alternative form of pwn [(Internet slang, online gaming, originally leet, transitive, intransitive) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).]
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Examples of "pawn" in Sentences
- The jewelry were in pawn.
- A pawn is a peon, or in other words a powerless person.
- The bishop then rams the pawn off the board from behind.
- The key squares are relative to the position of the pawn.
- The diagram on the right shows possible moves of the pawn e6.
- He becomes addicted to drugs and the unwitting pawn of Karzac.
- The advancement of the passed pawn outweighs the number of pawns.
- Becomes a pawn in the advancement of the destruction of his beloved Church.
- Naturally, the less advanced the pawn is, the better the defensive chances.
- The farther back the pawn is, the more likely the defense is to be successful.
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