chess piece
See also: chesspiece and chess-piece
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chess piece (countable and uncountable, plural chess pieces)Category:English lemmas#CHESSPIECECategory:English nouns#CHESSPIECECategory:English uncountable nouns#CHESSPIECECategory:English countable nouns#CHESSPIECECategory:English countable nouns#CHESSPIECECategory:English multiword terms#CHESSPIECECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CHESSPIECECategory:Pages with entries#CHESS%20PIECECategory:Pages with 1 entry#CHESS%20PIECE
- (chessCategory:en:Chess#CHESSPIECE) Any of the 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess.
- Synonym: chessman (now less common)
- Hypernyms: pieceCategory:English links with manual fragments#CHESS%20PIECE, objectCategory:English links with manual fragments#CHESS%20PIECE
- (idiomaticCategory:English idioms#CHESSPIECE) A person being manipulated by another, being used to some end.
Hyponyms
| Chess pieces in English · chess pieces, chessmen (see also: chess) (layout · text) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| king | queen | rook, castle | bishop | knight | pawn |
Translations
any of the 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess
See also
- Appendix:Chess pieces
Chess pieces on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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