different between player vs backgammon

English

Etymology

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English ple?ere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), equivalent to play +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ple??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ple??(?)/
• Rhymes: -e??(?)
• Hyphenation: play?er

Noun

player (plural players)

1. One that plays
   1. One who plays any game or sport.
   2. (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
   3. (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
   4. (gaming, video games) A gamer; a gamester.
   5. (gambling) A gambler.
   6. (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
   7. (electronics) An electronic device that plays audio and/or video media, such as CD player.
   8. (computing) A software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as media player.
2. One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
3. A participant; one involved in something.

   He thought he could become a player, at least at the state level.
4. (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
   • 1977 March 24, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, “Dreams”, Warner Bros.:

     Thunder only happens when it’s rainin’ / Players only love you when they’re playin’ / Say women, they will come and they will go / When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know

Synonyms

• (one who plays; (game) participant; athlete): laker
• (one who plays the field): See Thesaurus:libertine

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• baller

Anagrams

• Rapley, parley, pearly, prelay, replay

Middle English

Noun

player

1. Alternative form of pleyer

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English player.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?plej.e?/

Noun

player m (plural players)

1. (Brazil) (electronics) player (electronic device or software application that plays media)

   Synonyms: tocador, leitor

2. (video games) player (a person or artificial intelligence that competes in a video game)

   Synonym: jogador

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:player.

English

Etymology

Probably from back + Middle English gamen, from Old English gamen (“amusement, game”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?b?kg?m?n, IPA^(key): /?bæk.?æm.?n/

Noun

backgammon (countable and uncountable, plural backgammons)

1. A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
2. (backgammon) A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.

Related terms

• gammon

Translations

See also

• tick-tack
• tric-trac, trick-track

Verb

backgammon (third-person singular simple present backgammons, present participle backgammoning, simple past and past participle backgammoned)

1. To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.

Further reading

• backgammon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from English backgammon.

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon (board game)

Finnish

Etymology

From English backgammon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæk??m(?)on/, [?bæk??m(?)o?n]
• Syllabification: back?gam?mon

Noun

backgammon

1. backgammon

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English backgammon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bak.?a.m?n/

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

See also

• trictrac

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English backgammon.

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

   Synonyms: tric trac, tavola reale

Spanish

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

   Synonyms: chanchullo, chaquete, tablas reales