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Definition of "board game" []

  • A game of strategy, such as chess or backgammon, played by moving pieces on a board and sometimes involving dice. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "board game" in a sentence
  • "What could I say when the present my grandparents reluctantly shoved under the Christmas tree was a board game titled Chutzpah?"
  • "Meanwhile the Boy Technonaut was standing by the board game and tiger closet."
  • "“Well,” I said, exhaling slowly and trying to keep my hands from shaking, “we decided to create a board game about STDs called Crabble.”"