Usually means: Strategic board game, two players.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. chess: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. chess: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chess, chess, chess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chess: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chess: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chess, chess: Wordnik
  7. chess: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chess: Wiktionary
  9. chess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chess: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chess: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. CHESS: Dictionary.com
  13. chess: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chess: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CHESS, Chess (Mac OS), Chess (Northwestern University), Chess (OS X), Chess (One Piece), Chess (disambiguation), Chess (musical), Chess (poem), Chess (programming), Chess (video game), Chess: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chess: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chess: Rhymezone
  19. chess: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chess: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CHESS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Chess: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. chess: Free Dictionary
  24. chess: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. chess: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chess: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. CHESS: Investopedia
  3. CHESS: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chess: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. chess: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CHESS: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. CHESS: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chess: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. Chess: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

(Note: See chesses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
noun:  (now chiefly US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
noun:  (military, chiefly in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A river in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, England, which joins the Colne at Rickmansworth.

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