BILLIARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does billiard mean? 

• BILLIARD (adjective)
  The adjective BILLIARD has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to billiards

  Familiarity information: BILLIARD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BILLIARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to billiards

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

a billiard table

Pertainym:

billiards (any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls)

 Context examples 

What the devil does Sir John mean by not having a billiard room in his house?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

What were you doing, sir, up in that billiard saloon?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Spank! went the right, with the clear, crisp sound of two billiard balls clapping together, and Berks reeled, flung up his arms, spun round, and fell in a huge, fleshy heap upon the floor.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Another theory is that dunes might collide and exchange mass - sort of like billiard balls bouncing off one another - until they are the same size and move at the same speed, but we need to validate these theories experimentally.

(Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, University of Cambridge)

It was evident that we had entirely miscalculated his movements, that he had never been to his bedroom, but that he had been sitting up in some smoking or billiard room in the farther wing of the house, the windows of which we had not seen.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To the billiard- room I hastened: the click of balls and the hum of voices resounded thence; Mr. Rochester, Miss Ingram, the two Misses Eshton, and their admirers, were all busied in the game.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Begging your pardon, ma'am, it wasn't a billiard saloon, but a gymnasium, and I was taking a lesson in fencing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)