billiard

Examples of billiard in a sentence

• The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.
• A different but exactly resembling billiard ball has a numerically different but exactly resembling redness trope.
• There was an icehouse and a billiard parlor, a wine room, a lunch and eating counter, gambling saloons and taquerías.

All 10 example sentences with billiard

Synonyms of billiard

• 1015

Forms of billiard

Plural of billiard: billiards

Origin of billiard

From French billard with the insertion of the second i and orthographic representation of the French palatalized /j/ sound, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).

From French billiard, equivalent to bi- (“two”) + -illiard.

Words formed from billiard

• billiard ball
• billiard green
• billiard room
• billiard table

Related words

• Previous: billion. Next: trillion.
• 1015 = 1
• 000

Phrases with billiard

• billiard balls
• billiard rooms
• billiard tables
• bald as a billiard ball

Questions about billiard

What does billiard mean?

Billiard means a shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.

What part of speech is billiard?

Billiard can be a noun or a numeral.

How do you pronounce billiard?

Billiard is pronounced /ˈbɪlɪəd/ (UK).

What is the plural of billiard?

The plural of billiard is billiards.