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bil⋅liards

  [bil-yerdz]
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–noun (used with a singular verb)
any of several games played with hard balls of ivory or of a similar material that are driven with a cue on a cloth-covered table enclosed by a raised rim of rubber, esp. a game played with a cue ball and two object balls on a table without pockets. Compare pool 2 (def. 8).
Origin:
1585–95; pl. of billiard

Related forms:
bil⋅liard⋅ist, noun
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bil⋅liard

  [bil-yerd]
–adjective
1. of or used in billiards.
–noun
2. carom (def. 1).
Origin:
1630–40; < F billard cue, equiv. to bille stick (see billet 2 ) + -ard -ard
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bil·liard   (bĭl'yərd)   
adj.  Of, relating to, or used in billiards.
n.  See carom.
bil·liards   (bĭl'yərdz)   
pl.n.   (used with a sing. verb)
  1. A game played on a rectangular cloth-covered table with raised cushioned edges, in which a cue is used to hit three small, hard balls against one another or the side cushions of the table.
  2. One of several similar games, sometimes using a table with pockets, as in pool.

[French billard, from bille, log; see billet2.]
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Billiards

Bil"liards\, n. [F. billiard billiards, OF. billart staff, cue form playing, fr. bille log. See Billet a stick.] A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.
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Language Translation for : Billiards
Spanish: billar,
German: das Billard,
Japanese: ビリアード
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billiards 
1591, from Fr. billiard, originally the wooden cue stick, from O.Fr. bille "stick of wood," from Gaul. *bilia "tree."
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