Advertisement
🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

monte dei pegni

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈmonte dei ˈpeɲɲi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pawnshop/ˈpɔːn.ʃɒp/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
Full Thesaurus
🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Ha dovuto impegnare l'orologio al monte dei pegni."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A shop where loans are made with personal property left as security.

    "He had to take his grandmother's gold watch to the pawnshop to pay his electricity bill."
Advertisement

Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the noun 'pawn' (from Middle English 'paun', from Old French 'pan', meaning pledge or security) combined with 'shop'. Established in the late 19th century to describe commercial establishments where loans are granted against valuable personal property left as collateral.

Quick Vocabulary Retention Check

Which of the following is the closest synonym for "Pawnshop"?

Advertisement
Thesaurus & Synonyms Graph

Explore Nuanced Synonyms for "Pawnshop"

Discover exact matches, context-specific alternatives, and antonyms with intensity ratings in the VocabDictionary Thesaurus.

View "Pawnshop" Synonym Map
Advertisement