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goban

goban is the alternative form of gobang.

Meaning of gobang

Noun

gobang (countable and uncountable, plural gobangs)

  1. (uncountable) Gomoku, a Japanese strategy game.
  2. (countable) A board for playing the game of go.

Forms of goban

pluralgoban

Origin of goban

From Japanese 碁盤 (goban).

Questions about goban

What is goban the alternative form of?
Goban is the alternative form of gobang.

Words near goban in the dictionary

  1. gob-strings
  2. goback
  3. gobacks
  4. gobaloon
  5. gobaloons
  6. goban
  7. gobang
  8. gobangs
  9. Gobannian
  10. Gobannians
  11. gobar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goban (page history and authors); gobang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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