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billiard

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈbɪlɪəd/
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/ˈbɪlɪəd/ · /ˈbɪl.i.ə(ɹ)d/ · /ˈbɪl.i.ɑː(ɹ)d/

Definition of billiard

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
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noun

  1. A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
  2. (attributive)Pertaining to the game of billiards.
    “a billiard table; a billiard ball”
  3. A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.

num

  1. (British, rare)10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

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Etymology

From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).

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