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philosopher's game

philosopher's game noun: a game similar to chess, played on an oblong board with round, triangular and square pieces.

Noun

philosopher's game

  1. (historical) A game similar to chess, played on an oblong board with round, triangular and square pieces.
    • The ordinary recreations which we have in winter, and in most solitary times busy our minds with, are cards, tables and dice, shovelboard, chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
    Synonyms:
    rithmomachy, ryghtmathy

Synonyms of philosopher's game

Questions about philosopher's game

What does philosopher's game mean?
Philosopher's game means a game similar to chess, played on an oblong board with round, triangular and square pieces.
What part of speech is philosopher's game?
Philosopher's game is a noun.

Words near philosopher's game in the dictionary

  1. philosopher king
  2. philosopher kings
  3. philosopher of fire
  4. philosopher's egg
  5. philosopher's eggs
  6. philosopher's game
  7. philosopher's lamp
  8. philosopher's stone
  9. philosopher's stones
  10. philosopher's tree
  11. philosopher's wool

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