DOMINO (dominoes)

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Irregular inflected form: dominoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Domino mean? 

• DOMINO (noun)
  The noun DOMINO has 4 senses:

1. United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928)

2. a loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask as part of a masquerade costume

3. a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes

4. a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots

  Familiarity information: DOMINO used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMINO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Antoine Domino; Domino; Fats Domino

Instance hypernyms:

rhythm and blues musician (a performer (and sometimes composer) of rhythm and blues music)

ballad maker; songster; songwriter (a composer of words or music for popular songs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask as part of a masquerade costume

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

cloak (a loose outer garment)

Holonyms ("domino" is a part of...):

fancy dress; masquerade; masquerade costume (a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

domino; eye mask; half mask

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

mask (a covering to disguise or conceal the face)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

block (a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides))

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

five; five-spot (a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips)

four; four-spot (a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips)

one-spot (a domino or die whose upward face shows one pip)

six; six-spot (a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips)

 Context examples 

Jo peeped into his half-open eye, felt his little heart, and finding him stiff and cold, shook her head, and offered her domino box for a coffin.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“This has a domino effect that results in the magnetic field becoming weaker and the star to age prematurely.”

(NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Finds Planet That Makes Star Act Deceptively Old, NASA)

Agnes played the piano to him, sat by him, and worked and talked, and played some games at dominoes with me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. March went out, after peeping here and there to see how matters went, also saying a word of comfort to Beth, who sat making a winding sheet, while the dear departed lay in state in the domino box.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Among them I remember a double set of pigs' trotters, a huge pin-cushion, half a bushel or so of apples, a pair of jet earrings, some Spanish onions, a box of dominoes, a canary bird and cage, and a leg of pickled pork.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)