billiards

English

A game of billiards

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪlɪədz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪl.jɚdz/
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪədz, -ɪljə(ɹ)dz
• Hyphenation: bil‧liards

Etymology 1

From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).

Noun

billiards (uncountable)

1. (games, British) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.

   Synonym: English billiards

2. (games, US) Any of various games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cue sport

Derived terms

• bar billiards
• billiards room
• bowlliards
• carambole billiards
• carom billiards
• lawn billiards
• pocket billiards
• pyramid billiards
• Russian billiards

 

Translations

any cue sport

• Albanian: bilardo (sq)
• Arabic: بِلْيَارْدُو m (bilyārdū)
• Armenian: բիլիարդ (hy) (biliard)
• Azerbaijani: bilyard (az)
• Belarusian: білья́рд m (bilʹjárd)
• Bulgarian: биля́рд m (biljárd)
• Catalan: billar (ca) m
• Chinese: 檯球／台球 (zh) (táiqiú), 桌球 (zh) (zhuōqiú), 撞球 (zh) (zhuàngqiú), 彈子／弹子 (zh)

  Cantonese: 檯波／台波 (toi² bo¹)

• Czech: kulečník m
• Danish: billard (da) c
• Dutch: biljart (nl) n
• Esperanto: bilardo
• Estonian: piljard (et)
• Faroese: biljard
• Finnish: biljardi (fi)
• French: billards (fr) m pl
• Georgian: ბილიარდი (biliardi)
• German: Karambolagen (de) f pl, Billard (de) n
• Greek: μπιλιάρδο (el) n (biliárdo)
• Greenlandic: billardi
• Hindi: बिलियर्ड्स (biliyarḍs), बिलियर्ड (hi) m (biliyarḍ)
• Hungarian: biliárd (hu)
• Icelandic: ballskák f
• Ido: biliardo (io)
• Irish: billéardaí m pl
• Italian: biliardi (it) m pl
• Japanese: ビリヤード (ja) (biriyādo)
• Kazakh: бильярд (bilärd)
• Korean: 당구(撞球) (ko) (danggu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bilyar (ku) f

• Latvian: biljards m
• Lithuanian: biliardas (lt)
• Macedonian: билија́рд m (bilijárd), билја́рд m (biljárd)
• Maltese: biljard
• Manx: billiardyn pl
• Maori: piriota
• Marathi: बिलियर्ड्स m (biliyarḍsa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: biljard m

  Nynorsk: biljard m

• Persian: بیلیارد (fa) (bilyârd)
• Polish: bilard (pl) m
• Portuguese: bilhar (pt) m
• Romanian: biliard (ro)
• Russian: билья́рд (ru) m (bilʹjárd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: билијар m, биљар m

  Roman: bilijar (sh) m, biljar (sh) m

• Slovak: biliard m, gulečník m
• Slovene: biljard m
• Spanish: billar (es) m
• Swedish: biljard (sv) c
• Tagalog: bilyar
• Thai: บิลเลียด (th) (bin lîat)
• Tibetan: རྒྱུག་པོལ (rgyug pol)
• Turkish: bilardo (tr)
• Ukrainian: білья́рд (uk) m (bilʹjárd)
• Vietnamese: trò chơi bi-a, bi-a

See also

• pool
• snooker

Etymology 2

Noun

billiards

1. plural of billiard