Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A horse chestnut, used in the game of conkers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cheggie, cobbler, obblyonker
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Alternative form of kankar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: buckeye, horse chestnut
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: seed
History
As a term for horse chestnut, derived from the name of the game conkers, which came first. Theories for the original meaning include 19th-century dialect conker (“snail-shell”) (the game of conkers was originally played using snail-shells), from conch + -er, or a variant of conquer.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
