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board game

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any of many games of strategy or chance played on a specially designed board; often involves one or more players moving pieces and using dice or cards.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

a game played on a specially designed board

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: parlor game, parlour game

Narrower terms: Scrabble, backgammon, checkers, draughts, chess, chess game, Chinese checkers, Chinese chequers, darts, go, go game, halma, lotto, bingo, beano, keno, ludo, Mah-Jongg, mahjong, Monopoly, pachisi, parchesi, parchisi, shovel board, shove-halfpenny, shove-ha'penny, snakes and ladders, ticktacktoe, ticktacktoo, tick-tack-toe, tic-tac-toe, tit-tat-toe, noughts and crosses

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Across languages

Translations

57 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: لُعْبَة لَوْحِيَّة — game played on a board
  • Arabic: لُعْبَة طَاوِلَة — game played on a board
  • Bulgarian: насто́лна игра́ (nastólna igrá) — game played on a board
  • Bulgarian: бордова́ игра́ (bordová igrá) — game played on a board
  • Catalan: joc de tauler — game played on a board
  • Chinese Mandarin: 版圖遊戲 /版图游戏 (bǎntú yóuxì) — game played on a board
  • Chinese Mandarin: 圖版遊戲 /图版游戏 (túbǎn yóuxì) — game played on a board
  • Chinese Mandarin: 紙盤遊戲 /纸盘游戏 (zhǐpán yóuxì) — game played on a board
  • Chinese Mandarin: 棋盤遊戲 /棋盘游戏 (qípán yóuxì) — game played on a board
  • Chinese Mandarin: 紙上遊戲 /纸上游戏 (zhǐshàng yóuxì) — game played on a board
  • Chinese Mandarin: 桌面遊戲 /桌面游戏 (zhuōmiàn yóuxì) — game played on a board
  • Chinese Mandarin: 棋類遊戲 /棋类游戏 (qílèi yóuxì) — game played on a board
  • Chinese Mandarin: 桌遊 /桌游 (zhuōyóu) — game played on a board
  • Cornish: gwari bord — game played on a board
  • Czech: desková hra — game played on a board
  • Danish: brætspil — game played on a board
  • Dutch: bordspel — game played on a board
  • Dutch: gezelschapsspel — game played on a board
  • Esperanto: tabulludo — game played on a board
  • Estonian: lauamäng — game played on a board
  • Finnish: lautapeli — game played on a board
  • French: jeu de société — game played on a board
  • Georgian: სამაგიდო თამაში (samagido tamaši) — game played on a board
  • German: Brettspiel — game played on a board
  • Greek: επιτραπέζιο (epitrapézio) — game played on a board
  • Greek: επιτραπέζιο παιχνίδι (epitrapézio paichnídi) — game played on a board
  • Hungarian: társasjáték — game played on a board
  • Hungarian: táblajáték — game played on a board
  • Icelandic: borðspil — game played on a board
  • Italian: gioco da tavolo — game played on a board
  • Japanese: ボードゲーム (bōdo gēmu) — game played on a board
  • Kazakh: үстел ойыны (üstel oiyny) — game played on a board
  • Khmer: ល្បែងក្ដារ (lbaeng kdar) — game played on a board
  • Korean: 보드게임 (bodeugeim) — game played on a board
  • Kyrgyz: стол оюну (stol oyunu) — game played on a board
  • Latvian: galda spēle — game played on a board
  • Lithuanian: stalo žaidimas — game played on a board
  • Luxembourgish: Brietspill — game played on a board
  • Nahuatl: huapalpatolli — game played on a board
  • Norwegian Bokmål: brettspill — game played on a board
  • Norwegian Bokmål: brettspell — game played on a board
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: brettspel — game played on a board
  • Polish: gra planszowa — game played on a board
  • Polish: planszówka — game played on a board
  • Portuguese: jogo de tabuleiro — game played on a board
  • Romanian: joc pe tablă — game played on a board
  • Romanian: joc de tablă — game played on a board
  • Romanian: joc de societate — game played on a board
  • Russian: насто́льная игра́ (nastólʹnaja igrá) — game played on a board
  • Scots: buird gemme — game played on a board
  • Spanish: juego de mesa — game played on a board
  • Swahili: bao — game played on a board
  • Swedish: brädspel — game played on a board
  • Thai: เกมกระดาน (geem-grà-daan) — game played on a board
  • Turkish: masa oyunu — game played on a board
  • Ukrainian: насті́льна гра (nastílʹna hra) — game played on a board
  • Welsh: gêm fwrdd — game played on a board