DOMINOES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dominoes mean? 

• DOMINOES (noun)
  The noun DOMINOES has 1 sense:

1. any of several games played with small rectangular blocks

  Familiarity information: DOMINOES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMINOES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several games played with small rectangular blocks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dominoes; dominos

Hypernyms ("dominoes" is a kind of...):

table game (a game that is played on a table)

 Context examples 

Agnes played the piano to him, sat by him, and worked and talked, and played some games at dominoes with me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Among them I remember a double set of pigs' trotters, a huge pin-cushion, half a bushel or so of apples, a pair of jet earrings, some Spanish onions, a box of dominoes, a canary bird and cage, and a leg of pickled pork.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)