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BILLIARD ROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does billiard room mean? 

BILLIARD ROOM (noun)
  The noun BILLIARD ROOM has 1 sense:

1. a room in which billiards is playedplay

  Familiarity information: BILLIARD ROOM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BILLIARD ROOM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A room in which billiards is played

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

billiard hall; billiard parlor; billiard parlour; billiard room; billiard saloon

Hypernyms ("billiard room" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)


 Context examples 


What the devil does Sir John mean by not having a billiard room in his house?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was evident that we had entirely miscalculated his movements, that he had never been to his bedroom, but that he had been sitting up in some smoking or billiard room in the farther wing of the house, the windows of which we had not seen.

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



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