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Definitions for billiards
ˈbɪl yərdzbil·liards
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Princeton's WordNet
billiardsnoun
any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls
Wiktionary
billiardsnoun
A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
billiardsnoun
The collective noun for games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Billiardsnoun
without a singular.
Etymology: billard, Fr. of which that language has no etymology; and therefore they probably derived from England both the play and the name; which is corrupted from balyards; yards or sticks with which a ball is driven along a table. Thus Edmund Spenser:
Balyards much unfit,
And shuttlecocks misseeming manly wit. Hubb. Tale.].Let it alone; let’s to billiards. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleop.
Even nose and cheek, withal,
Smooth as is the billiard ball. Ben Jonson, Underwoods.Some are forced to bound or fly upwards, almost like ivory balls meeting on a billiard table. Boyle.
When the ball obeys the stroke of a billiard stick, it is not any action of the ball, but bare passion. John Locke.
Wikipedia
billiards
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports:
ChatGPT
billiards
Billiards is a game usually played on a rectangular table covered in felt, involving the striking of solid balls with a long cue stick. These balls are hit into each other and/or pockets along the sides of the table based on specific game rules. Major variations of the game include pool, snooker, and carom.
Webster Dictionary
Billiardsnoun
a game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Billiards
bil′yardz, n. a game played with a cue or mace and balls on a table having pockets at the sides and corners.—adj. Bill′iard.—n. Bill′iard-mark′er, a person who marks the points made by the players. [Fr. billard—bille, a ball.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of billiards in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of billiards in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of billiards in a Sentence
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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- بلياردوArabic
- bilyardAzerbaijani
- більярдBelarusian
- билярдBulgarian
- billarCatalan, Valencian
- kulečníkCzech
- billardDanish
- Billard, KarambolagenGerman
- μπιλιάρδοGreek
- billarSpanish
- piljardEstonian
- بیلیاردPersian
- biljardiFinnish
- billard, billardsFrench
- billéardaíIrish
- billiardynManx
- बिलियर्ड्सHindi
- biliárdHungarian
- բիլիարդArmenian
- biliardoIdo
- biliardiItalian
- ビリヤードJapanese
- ბილიარდიGeorgian
- billardiKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- 당구, 撞球Korean
- bilyarKurdish
- biliardasLithuanian
- biljardsLatvian
- билјард, билијардMacedonian
- biljardMaltese
- biljardNorwegian
- biljartDutch
- biljardNorwegian Nynorsk
- bilardPolish
- bilharPortuguese
- biliardRomanian
- бильярдRussian
- биљар, biljar, bilijar, билијарSerbo-Croatian
- gulečníkSlovak
- biljardSlovene
- bilardoAlbanian
- biljardSwedish
- บิลเลียดThai
- bilardoTurkish
- більярдUkrainian
- bi-a, trò chơi bi-aVietnamese
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