Checkerboard (Noun)
Meaning
A board having 64 squares of two alternating colors.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The game of checkers is typically played on a red and black checkerboard with 64 squares.
- The classic Vans shoes are often decorated with a checkerboard pattern in blue and white.
- As the bus moved along the country road, the fields and forests outside the window formed a checkerboard pattern of green and brown.
- The artist created a mosaic using thousands of small tiles to replicate the design of a traditional checkerboard.
- The tourists got lost in the city's checkerboard streets, unable to tell where one block ended and another began.