BACKGAMMON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does backgammon mean? 

• BACKGAMMON (noun)
  The noun BACKGAMMON has 1 sense:

1. a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice

  Familiarity information: BACKGAMMON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACKGAMMON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("backgammon" is a kind of...):

board game (a game played on a specially designed board)

 Context examples 

Miss Dartle played backgammon as eagerly as she did everything else.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Grandmama was quite well, had a charming evening with Mr. Woodhouse, a vast deal of chat, and backgammon.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Then turning to Mr. Bennet, he offered himself as his antagonist at backgammon.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

When he was sober he used to be fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would make me his representative both with the servants and with the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite master of the house.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It was at Mr. Creakle's, my son tells me, that you first became acquainted,” said Mrs. Steerforth, as she and I were talking at one table, while they played backgammon at another.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Bennet and her daughters apologised most civilly for Lydia's interruption, and promised that it should not occur again, if he would resume his book; but Mr. Collins, after assuring them that he bore his young cousin no ill-will, and should never resent her behaviour as any affront, seated himself at another table with Mr. Bennet, and prepared for backgammon.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Emma spared no exertions to maintain this happier flow of ideas, and hoped, by the help of backgammon, to get her father tolerably through the evening, and be attacked by no regrets but her own.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There was a little altercation between her and Steerforth about a cast of the dice at backgammon—when I thought her, for one moment, in a storm of rage; and then I saw it start forth like the old writing on the wall.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)