Definition of BILLIARD

billiard

Meanings

Plural: billiards

Adjective

  • of or relating to billiards
    • "a billiard ball"
    • "a billiard cue"
    • "a billiard table"

Noun

  • A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
  • Pertaining to the game of billiards.
  • A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.

Num

  • 10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

Origin / 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”).

Synonyms

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Scrabble Score: 11

billiard is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
billiard is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
billiard is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

billiard is a valid Words With Friends word