Meanings
- historicalA game similar to chess, played on an oblong board with round, triangular and square pieces.
The ordinary recreations which we have in winter, and in most solitary times busy our minds with, are cards, tables and dice, shovelboard, chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock […]
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4Synonyms: rithmomachy, ryghtmathy
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA game similar to chess, played on an oblong board with round, triangular and square pieces.
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philosopher's game. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/philosopher's%20game
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