Checkers vs Dame - What's the difference?
checkers | dame |
(board games, US, Canada, in the singular) A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces.
English plurals
(board games, US, Canada, in the plural) the playing pieces in the game of checkers.
(checker)
(British) The .
(dated, informal, slightly, derogatory, US) A woman.
* 1949 , (Oscar Hammerstein II), "(There is Nothing Like a Dame)",
A traditional character in British pantomime, a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
(archaic) , woman.
As nouns the difference between checkers and dame
is that checkers is a game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces while dame is the {{l/en|equivalent}} title to {{l/en|Sir}} for a female {{l/en|knight}}.As a verb checkers
is third-person singular of checker.checkers
English
(wikipedia checkers)Etymology
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)Synonyms
* draughts (UK)Verb
(head)Anagrams
*dame
English
Noun
(en noun)- Dame Edith Sitwell
- There ain't nothin' like a dame'! / Nothin' in the world! / There is nothin' you can name / That is anythin' like a ' dame !
