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Definition: PAWNED |
PAWNEDImperative & past participle1. Of Pawn |
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. |
Crosswords: PAWNED |
| English words defined with "PAWNED": Crown jewels ♦ Impignoration ♦ Pawnable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PAWNED": DIPT ♦ LAID ON THE SHELF, LAID UP IN LAVENDER ♦ SHELF, SPOUTED. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 71.43% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 23.81% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 empeñado (bitter, determined, in hock, in pop). (various references) pantat. (various references) rehinde (in hock, in pawn, in pop, up the spout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PAWNED": impawned, spawned. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PAWNED" (pronounced pô"nd) |
| 4 | p ô" n d | spawned. |
| 3 | -ô" n d | dawned, Maund, yawned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 57 4E 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .--. -. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01010111 01001110 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A W N E D |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)503557483938 |
| 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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