billiards

billiards

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪlɪədz/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪl.jɚdz/
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪədz, -ɪljə(ɹ)dz
• Hyphenation: bil‧liards

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

billiards (uncountable)

1. (games, Britain) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.

   Synonym: English billiards

2. (games, US) Any of various games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cue sport

Derived terms

• bar billiards
• billiards room
• carom billiards
• lawn billiards
• pocket billiards
• pyramid billiards
• Russian billiards

 

Translations

any cue sport

Albanian: bilardo (sq) Arabic: بِلْيَارْدُو‎ m (bilyārdū) Armenian: բիլիարդ (hy) (biliard) Azerbaijani: bilyard (az) Belarusian: білья́рд m (bilʹjárd) Bulgarian: биля́рд m (biljárd) Catalan: billar (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 台球 (zh) (táiqiú), 撞球 (zh) (zhuàngqiú), 彈子／弹子 (zh) (dànzǐ) Czech: kulečník m Danish: billard (da) c Dutch: biljart (nl) n Esperanto: bilardo Estonian: piljard (et) Finnish: biljardi (fi) French: billards (fr) m pl Georgian: ბილიარდი (biliardi) German: Karambolagen (de) f pl, Billard (de) n Greek: μπιλιάρδο (el) n (biliárdo) Greenlandic: billardi Hindi: बिलियर्ड्स (biliyarḍs), बिलियर्ड (hi) m (biliyarḍ) Hungarian: biliárd (hu) Ido: biliardo (io) Irish: billéardaí m pl Italian: biliardi (it) m pl Japanese: ビリヤード (ja) (biriyādo) Kazakh: бильярд (bilärd) Korean: 당구(撞球) (ko) (danggu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: bilyar (ku) f Latvian: biljards m Lithuanian: biliardas (lt) Macedonian: билија́рд m (bilijárd), билја́рд m (biljárd) Maltese: biljard Manx: billiardyn pl Maori: piriota Norwegian: Bokmål: biljard m Nynorsk: biljard m Persian: بیلیارد‎ (fa) (bilyârd) Polish: bilard (pl) m Portuguese: bilhar (pt) m Romanian: biliard (ro) Russian: билья́рд (ru) m (bilʹjárd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: билијар m, биљар m Roman: bilijar (sh) m, biljar (sh) m Slovak: biliard m, gulečník m Slovene: biljard m Spanish: billar (es) m Swedish: biljard (sv) c Tagalog: bilyar Thai: บิลเลียด (th) (bin lîat) Tibetan: རྒྱུག་པོལ (rgyug pol) Turkish: bilardo (tr) Ukrainian: білья́рд (uk) m (bilʹjárd) Vietnamese: trò chơi bi-a, bi-a

See also

• pool
• snooker

Noun

billiards

1. plural of billiard