pawn
pawn is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Pan, the masticatory. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. See Pan, the masticatory.
- noun. A man or piece of the lowest rank.
- noun. Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
- noun. State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
- noun. A stake hazarded in a wager.
- transitive verb. To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.
- transitive verb. To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
- noun. borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan
- noun. (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank
- noun. a person used by another to gain an end
- noun. an article deposited as security
- verb. leave as a guarantee in return for money
"pawn your grandfather's gold watch"
Synonyms
Common word forms
pawns, pawned, pawner, pawning, pawnable
Words from these letters
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