Meaning

3 senses
  1. A square board divided into sixty-four equal squares arranged in eight rows and eight columns, with adjacent squares alternating in color, typically black and white, used to play chess, checkers or draughts.

    ша́хматная доска́šáxmatnaja doská

  2. A pattern of squares of alternating colors.

    a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors

  3. A style of negative cutting that avoids visible splice marks.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. We play chess on a checkerboard.

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  2. We play chess with a checkerboard.

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  3. It's hard to get good-quality checkerboards on the internet.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
game board:

Origin

From checker + board.

From checker + board.

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Forms

plural: checkerboards

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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