board game

board game
noun
a game played on a specially designed board
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• Hypernyms: ↑parlor game, ↑parlour game
• Hyponyms:

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▶ noun. See list.
Board Games
backgammon
checkers
chess
Chinese chequers
Chinese chess
Cluedo (trademark)
draughts
fox and geese
go
halma
kriegspiel
ludo
mancala
Monopoly (trademark)
nine men's morris
pachisi
peggotty
Pictionary (trademark)
Risk (trademark)
Scrabble (trademark)
shogi
snakes and ladders
solitaire
Trivial Pursuit (trademark)
wari
wei ch'i

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noun
: a game of strategy (as checkers, chess, or backgammon) played by moving pieces on a board; broadly : a game played on a board

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1. a game, as checkers or chess, requiring the moving of pieces from one section of a board to another.
2. any game played on a board.
[1930-35]

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board game noun
A game (eg chess, snakes-and-ladders) which is played with pieces, counters, etc on a specially designed board
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Main Entry: ↑board

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board game UK US noun [countable] [singular board game plural board games]
an indoor game played on a board, often with pieces that are moved around it
Thesaurus: board games and playing board gameshyponym types of gameshypernym to perform an action in a card gamehyponym

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board game,
any game, such as checkers or chess, played on a board. Monopoly is a board game with real-estate property plotted on a board.

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n. any game played on a board, esp. one that involves the movement of pieces on the board, such as chess or checkers

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noun, pl ⋯ games [count]
: a game (such as chess) that is played by moving pieces on a special board

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ˈboard game [board game board games] noun
any game played on a board, often using ↑dice and small pieces that are moved around

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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