billiard room
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈbɪljərd ruːm/
:
salón de billar
- Every Friday night, we gather in the billiard room to play a few rounds of pool and enjoy each other's company.
- billiard room to play pool
Examples
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- Mr. Fitzgerald's in the billiard room.
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Then Yvette returned to the billiard room.
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Let's go look in the billiard room again.
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Welcome to the library-billiard room.
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Over here, that's the billiard room.
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Younger domestic workers spent leisure time in dance halls and billiard rooms.
Academic text (1997) -
But he was with us in the billiard room when we found Yvette screaming.
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A Space Invaders machine squats between leather club chairs in the elegant wood-paneled billiard room.
Academic text (2002) -
Eamon was describing the maid's quarters, the stable, the billiard room with the full bar, the ice machine, and the monogrammed highball glasses.
Fiction book (1998) -
The house had a spacious billiard room with a beautiful green felt table and comfortable seating.
Synonyms
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4.1
A room with tables where people play pool
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4.9
A room where people play games on a long table with balls and sticks, like pool
A place with tables where people play pool
A room where people play billiards on tables
How Suitable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room furnished and arranged for playing billiards' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'billiard' (related to the game) with 'room' (an indoor area). This adjective+noun composition is literal and follows standard noun-modifier patterns cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Billiard room comes from a simple idea: a room made for the game of billiards. People put a table, cues and chairs there to play, so it means 'a room for playing billiards'.