Definition of pawn Pawn
/pɔˈn/ - [pon] - pawn
We found 28 definitions of pawn from 8 different sources.
What does pawn mean?
WordNet
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| pawn - borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan | ||
| borrowing the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent" | ||
| pawn - (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 | ||
| chess piece, chessman any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess | ||
| pawn - an article deposited as security | ||
| pledge a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event | ||
| pawn - a person used by another to gain an end | ||
| instrument, cat's-paw | ||
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| pawn - leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch" | ||
| soak, hock | ||
| consign, charge give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage" | ||
| commercialism, mercantilism, commerce an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | ||
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Wiktionary 
- pawn (Noun)
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 . - pawn (Noun)
Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end, usually not the end that individual would prefer. - pawn (Noun)
The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge. - pawn (Noun)
An instance of pawning something. - pawn (Noun)
An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge. - pawn (Noun)
A pawn shop , pawnbroker. - pawn (Verb)
To render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games. - pawn (Verb)
To pledge; to stake or wager. - pawn (Verb)
To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit something at a pawn shop.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- pawn (n.)
See Pan, the masticatory. - pawn (n.)
A man or piece of the lowest rank. - pawn (n.)
Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1. - pawn (n.)
State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise. - pawn (n.)
A stake hazarded in a wager. - pawn (v. t.)
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. - pawn (v. t.)
To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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pawn
A chess piece, the least valuable one.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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pawn
pawn, n. something given as security for the repayment of money or the performance of a promise: state of being pledged.—v.t. to give in pledge.—ns. Pawn′broker, a broker who lends money on pawns or pledges; Pawn′broking, the business of a pawnbroker; Pawnee′, one who takes anything in pawn; Pawn′er, one who gives a pawn or pledge as security for money borrowed; Pawn′shop, a shop of a pawnbroker; Pawn′ticket, a ticket marked with the name of the article, the amount advanced, &c., delivered to the person who has pawned anything.—At pawn, pledged, laid away. [O. Fr. pan, prob. from L. pannus, a cloth.] -
pawn
pawn, n. a common piece in chess. [O. Fr. paon, a foot-soldier—Low L. pedo, pedonis, a foot-soldier—L. pes, pedis, the foot.] -
pawn
pawn, n. a gallery
Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary 🤡
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pawn
v. t., To keep property in the family by leaving it all with your Uncle.
Wikipedia 
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chess
The pawn (♙♟) is the most weak piece in the game of chess, standing for infantry, or armed peasants or pikemen. Each player starts the game with eight pawns, one on each square of the second rank (or row) from the view of the player. In algebraic chess notation the white pawns start on a2, b2, c2..., h2, while the black pawns start on a7, b7, c7..., h7.
Moving.
Pawns move differently than other pieces. Unlike all the other pieces, pawns can not move backwards. Most of the time, a pawn moves by going up a single square, but the first time each pawn is moved from its starting place, it can go forward two squares. Pawns may not use the first two-square move to jump over a square with another piece on it or to capture. Any piece in front of a pawn, white or black, stops its moving. In the picture at right, the pawn on c4 may move to c5, while the pawn on e2 may move to either e3 or e4.
Capturing.
Not like other pieces, the pawn does not capture in the same way as it moves. A pawn captures diagonally, one square forward and to the left or right. In the picture to the left, the white pawn can capture either the black rook or the black knight.
An even more strange move is the "en passant" capture.
This happens when a pawn uses its first-move option to go forward two squares instead of one and passes over a square that is attacked by an enemy pawn.
That enemy pawn, which would have been able to capture the moving pawn if it moved forward only one square can capture the moving pawn "i
