Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with tiles resembling dominoes and bearing various designs, which are drawn and discarded until one player wins with a hand of four combinations of three tiles each and a pair of matching tiles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of
tiles divided into five or sixsuits . - noun A
solitaire game using the sametiles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Online games such as mahjong are gaining popularity in Taiwan.
unknown title 2009
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Saki launched some kind of mahjong craze among the anime-watching population, as well.
Anime Nano! 2009
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Saki herself is returning to form and playing a kind of mahjong that seems to surpass even Koromo's control over the other players.
Mania News Feed 2009
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Online games such as mahjong are gaining popularity in Taiwan.
unknown title 2009
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More and more minigames have been added in the meantime, each with their own in-game bonus: there's a whole host of casino games, bowling lanes and batting cages, traditional Japanese pursuits such as mahjong, shogi, & karaoke, and finally a Hostess Club where protagonist Kiryu can either patronize the club and 'date' the various hostesses or help manage the place to discover new talent.
GayGamer.net 2009
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Saki herself is returning to form and playing a kind of mahjong that seems to surpass even Koromo's control over the other players.
Mania News Feed 2009
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My mother was in a bowling league, played mahjong, waited for my father to come home from work, got her hair done every Friday at the beauty parlor, and went for manicures.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett have a plasma in their Airstream trailer; they're on their way to Yuma, Ariz., for a mahjong tournament.
Your NBA Playoff Questions Answered Jason Gay 2011
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My mother was in a bowling league, played mahjong, waited for my father to come home from work, got her hair done every Friday at the beauty parlor, and went for manicures.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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At the Baoshan depot, clothes dried on makeshift lines as drivers snapped mahjong tiles in the cheap motel rooms that surrounded it and one driver's son shouted from behind a plastic mask of a Chinese folk hero.
Truckers Idle Rigs in Shanghai James T. Areddy 2011
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