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Definition of Mahjong
1. Noun. Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles.
Definition of Mahjong
1. Noun. A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits. ¹
2. Noun. A solitaire game using the same tiles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mahjong
1. a game of Chinese origin [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mahjong
Literary usage of Mahjong
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cutting Off the Serpent's Head: Tightening Control in Tibet, 1994-1995 by Tibet Information Network, Robert Barnett, Human Rights Watch/Asia, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1996)
"[2] The masses complained that some young monks broke their religious vows and
came to the town to play basketball and mahjong. What's more, they even stole ..."
2. Confucian Feminist: Memoirs of Zeng Baosun (1893-1978) by Baosun Zeng, Thomas L. Kennedy (2002)
"... twelfth lunar month until the fifteenth day of the New Year when she permitted
some games played with dice. The adults could also play a little mahjong. ..."
3. Thiaoouba Prophecy by Michel Desmarquet (1997)
"They sat at a table, engrossed in a game, which might well have been mahjong.
My attention was drawn to one of the pair - perhaps older than his companion ..."
4. Generations: The Story of Batu Gajah by Tak Ming Ho (2005)
"The downstairs hall was being leased as a mahjong club, and in spite of the rowdy
crowd of gamblers and the half dozen families now staying in the house as ..."
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