board game
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- noun
- /bɔrd ɡeɪm/
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juego de mesa
- We were playing this board game.
- play board games
- board games and cards
- board games and puzzles
For those who have played the cash flow board game, we have the rat race.
- For those who have played the cash flow board game, we have the rat race.
- Monopoly, the most popular board game ever made.
- It's going to be the scout piece in the board game stratego.
- So I made it into a board game.
Examples
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Who wants to play board games?
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On rainy days, we love to gather around the table and play a board game as a family.
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So we created a board game called Cash Flow.
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So I created this board game here and you have a chance.
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Family time, and we're all playing board games!
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The Tuesday meetings began, and the group often played board games or cards after eating their lunch.
Academic text (2013) -
Have you ever been beaten in any board game by a machine?
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A generation later, my grandfather expanded into sporting goods and board games.
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Babe, what if we had a more mellow night, played some board games or something?
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I played Trial by Trolley, which is a board game of the trolley problem.
Synonyms
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1.0
An activity with rules that people play for fun or competition
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A game played on a table like a board game or card game
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a game played on a board' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'board' (a surface) and 'game' (a recreational contest); there is no idiomatic shift. This noun–noun compounding pattern is common across languages and standard in English, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Board game comes from the simple idea of a board and a game. People played on a flat wooden or cardboard board with marked squares or paths and 'moved pieces' on it, so the name came to mean any game played on a board.