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DOMINOES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dominoes mean?
• DOMINOES (noun)
The noun DOMINOES has 1 sense:
1. any of several games played with small rectangular blocks
Familiarity information: DOMINOES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several games played with small rectangular blocks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
dominoes; dominos
Hypernyms ("dominoes" is a kind of...):
table game (a game that is played on a table)
Context examples
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)
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)
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