Checkerboard

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A board on which chess and checkers are played, divided into 64 squares of two alternating colors.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A pattern of squares of alternating colours.
  • n. A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 64 squares, used to play chess and draughts / checkers.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers, chess, or draughts.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A board divided into sixty-four small squares, thirty-two of one color and thirty-two of another, and arranged so that no two of the same color are side by side, on which checkers and chess are played. Also called draught-board, chess-board.
  • n. In American foot-ball, a term sometimes applied to the field of play. See gridiron.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors
  • n. a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gameboard    board   
    Hyponym
    chessboard   
    Synonym
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    draughtboard    l    en   
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