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PAWNED

Definition: PAWNED

PAWNED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Pawn

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PAWNED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)



Synonyms by domain: pawned security (finance), pledged security, security lodged as collateral.

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Crosswords: PAWNED

English words defined with "PAWNED": Crown jewelsImpignorationPawnable. (references)
Specialty definitions using "PAWNED": DIPTLAID ON THE SHELF, LAID UP IN LAVENDERSHELF, SPOUTED. (references)

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Modern Usage: PAWNED

DomainUsage

Lyrics

So he pawned all his hopes ("Midnight Train to Georgia"; performing artist: Gladys Knight & The Pips)

Movie/TV Titles

The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1954)

Pawned (1922)

When Tony Pawned Louisa (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: PAWNED

"PAWNED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "PAWNED" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)71.43%1590,616
Lexical Verb (past participle)23.81%5157,705
Adjective (general or positive)4.76%1339,140
                    Total100.00%21N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: PAWNED

Language Translations for "PAWNED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏محجوز (confined, reserved), ‏مرهون (mortgaged). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

典" (Pawn, Pawning, pawns). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

panden (pawned security, pledged security, security lodged as collateral), onderpanden (pawned security, pledged security, security lodged as collateral). (various references)

   

French

  

gagé. (various references)

   

German

  

verpfändet (mortgages, pawns, pledges). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ממושכן (mortgaged, pledged). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elzálogosított részvények (pawned stock). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tergadai. (various references)

   

Italian

  

titolo tenuto in pegno (pawned security, pledged security, security lodged as collateral), titolo pignorato (pawned security, pledged security, security lodged as collateral), titolo impegnato (pawned security, pledged security, security lodged as collateral), titolo dato in pegno (pawned security, pledged security, security lodged as collateral), titolo dato in garanzia (pawned security, pledged security, security lodged as collateral). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

質草'流す (to forfeit a pawned article), 質流れ (unredeemed pawned item), 流質 (forfeited pawned article), 典物 (pawned article). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しちながれ (unredeemed pawned item), しちぐさ'ながす (to forfeit a pawned article), りゅうしち (forfeited pawned article), て"ぶつ (pawned article). (various references)

   

Manx

  

gioaltit (mortgaged). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

awnedpay

   

Spanish

  

empeñado (bitter, determined, in hock, in pop). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

pantat. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rehinde (in hock, in pawn, in pop, up the spout). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: PAWNED

Derivations

Words ending with "PAWNED": impawned, spawned. (additional references)


Misspellings

"PAWNED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pawanteh, pawi, pawna, pawne, prawne, Pwani. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "PAWNED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "PAWNED" (pronounced pô"nd)
4p ô" n dspawned.
3-ô" n ddawned, Maund, yawned.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: PAWNED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-p-w"

-1 letter: awned, dawen, dewan, paned, pawed, waned.

-2 letters: anew, aped, awed, dawn, dean, nape, neap, pane, pawn, pean, pend, wade, wand, wane, wean, wend.

-3 letters: and, ane, ape, awe, awn, dap, daw, den, dew, end, nae, nap, naw, new, pad, pan, paw, pea, ped, pen, pew, wad, wae, wan, wap, wed, wen.

-4 letters: ad, ae, an, aw, de, ed, en, na, ne, pa, pe, we.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-p-w"
 

+1 letter: prawned, predawn, spawned.

 

+2 letters: impawned, knapweed, predawns, snapweed, unwarped, weaponed.

 

+3 letters: enwrapped, inwrapped, knapweeds, pastedown, phasedown, prewarned, snapweeds, unwrapped.

 

+4 letters: downplayed, pandowdies, pastedowns, phasedowns, planetwide, snowcapped, upwardness, wardenship, windowpane, wingspread.

 

+5 letters: candlepower, grandnephew, newspapered, wardenships, windowpanes, wingspreads.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PAWNED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 41 57 4E 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-    .--.    -.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01000001 01010111 01001110 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#65 &#87 &#78 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0041 0057 004E 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

503557483938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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