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Definition of Pachisi
1. Noun. An ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board.
Definition of Pachisi
1. n. A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.
2. n. A game adopted from the Indian game, using disks, as of pasteboard, and dice.
Definition of Pachisi
1. Noun. An ancient Indian board game in which players, throwing dice, shells, etc. to determine the distance of each move, attempt to be the first to take all of their counters around the board. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pachisi
1. a board game of India [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pachisi
Literary usage of Pachisi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Ideas: A Group of Hindoo Stories by F. F. Arbuthnot (1881)
"... pachisi, or Twenty-five Tales of a Demon, related by a sprite or demon, or
vampire, who haunts cemeteries and animates dead bodies, ..."
2. Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty by Fanny Parkes Parlby (1850)
"... Tomb of the Saint—The Gateway—A Tradition—The Temple of Magic—The Zenana—The
pachisi Board—The ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"A pachisi-board, which is usually embroidered on cloth, is marked with a cross
of squares, each limb consisting of three rows of 8 squares, placed around a ..."
4. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1892)
"There was more than pachisi upon the board that night, and his Majesty the ...
It seemed to him no extraordinary mark of court favor to play pachisi with ..."
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