BOARD GAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does board game mean? 

• BOARD GAME (noun)
  The noun BOARD GAME has 1 sense:

1. a game played on a specially designed board

  Familiarity information: BOARD GAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOARD GAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A game played on a specially designed board

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("board game" is a kind of...):

parlor game; parlour game (a game suitable for playing in a parlor)

Domain member category:

promote (be changed for a superior chess or checker piece)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "board game"):

Scrabble (a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game)

backgammon (a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice)

checkers; draughts (a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces)

chess; chess game (a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king)

Chinese checkers; Chinese chequers (a board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles through a set of holes from one point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point)

darts (a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard)

go; go game (a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters)

halma (a board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases)

beano; bingo; keno; lotto (a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards)

ludo (a simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice)

Mah-Jongg; mahjong (Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles)

Monopoly (a board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die)

pachisi; parchesi; parchisi (an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board)

shove-ha'penny; shove-halfpenny; shovel board (a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark)

snakes and ladders (a board game for children who use dice to move counters up ladders and down snakes)

noughts and crosses; tic-tac-toe; tick-tack-toe; ticktacktoe; ticktacktoo; tit-tat-toe (a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does)