CHESS PIECE Synonyms
There are 2 hypernyms of the phrase chess piece. (close relations)
Definition of CHESS PIECE
Best Alternative Words for CHESS PIECE
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| bishop | nounn | |||||||
noun • a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ • port wine mulled with oranges and cloves • (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color | ||||||||
| king | nounn | |||||||
noun • a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom • United States woman tennis player (born in 1943) • a competitor who holds a preeminent position • United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925) • a very wealthy or powerful businessman • United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968) • preeminence in a particular category or group or field • a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward • one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king • (chess) the weakest but the most important piece | ||||||||
| knight | nounn | |||||||
noun • originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit • a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) verb • raise (someone) to knighthood | ||||||||
| queen | nounn | |||||||
noun • the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs • a female sovereign ruler • the wife or widow of a king • something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind • a competitor who holds a preeminent position • offensive term for a homosexual man • one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen • (chess) the most powerful piece • an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males • female cat verb • promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess • become a queen | ||||||||
| rook | nounn | |||||||
noun • (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard • common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow verb • deprive of by deceit | ||||||||
| chessman | nounn | |||||||
noun • any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess | ||||||||
