Usually means: Lowest value, chess board piece.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word pawn:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pawn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pawn: Merriam-Webster
  3. pawn, pawn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pawn, pawn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pawn: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pawn: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pawn, pawn: Wordnik
  8. pawn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pawn: Wiktionary
  10. pawn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pawn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pawn: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pawn: Dictionary.com
  14. pawn (1), pawn (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pawn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. PAWN, Pawn (chess), Pawn (film), Pawn (law), Pawn, The Pawn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pawn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pawn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pawn: Rhymezone
  20. pawn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pawn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pawn: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pawn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pawn: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. pawn: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. pawn: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. pawn: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Pawn (law), pawn: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pawn (law), pawn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pawn: Sound Alike Words
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pawn (law): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PAWN: Acronym Finder
  2. pawn: Idioms
  3. pawn: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pawn, pawn, pawn: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pawn: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pawned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
noun:  (figurative) Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
noun:  An instance of pawning something.
noun:  (archaic) An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
noun:  (rare) A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
verb:  (transitive) To pledge; to stake or wager.
verb:  (transitive) To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
noun:  A gallery.
noun:  Alternative form of paan [(India) 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:  (video games) Alternative form of pwn [(Internet slang, online gaming, originally leet, ambitransitive) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).]

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