Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.

    Schachmatt

    шах и матšax i mat, матmat

    матmat

    a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king

  2. (broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable)Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.

    Schachmatt, Niederlage, aussichtslose Lage

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Tom checkmated Mary on the tenth move.

    deTom setzte Maria in zehn Zügen schachmatt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. You'll be checkmate in three moves.

    Тобі мат у три ходи. — deniko

    deIn drei Zügen bist du schachmatt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. The checkmated player shook the hand of his opponent.

    Заматований гравець потис руку опоненту. — deniko

  4. Maria is a chess whiz, she checkmated me in ten moves.

    Марія - шаховий геній, вона поставила мені мат за десять ходів. — deniko

  5. If your king has been checkmated then that means you lost.

    Якщо твоєму королеві поставили мат, це означає, що ти програла. — deniko

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
conclusive victory in a game of chess:
Русский
By meaning 1
conclusive victory in a game of chess:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
conclusive victory in a game of chess:
losing situation with no escape:

Origin

From Middle English chekmat, from Old French eschec mat, from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta)

From Middle English chekmat, from Old French eschec mat, from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta), from Classical Persian شاه مات (šāh māt, “the king [is] amazed”).

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Forms

plural: checkmates
Singularcheckmate
Pluralcheckmates

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king:mate

Word family

1 related words
Relatedstalemate

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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