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WORD GAME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("word game" is a kind of...):
parlor game; parlour game (a game suitable for playing in a parlor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "word game"):
anagrams (a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters)
Scrabble (a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game)
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