SNAKES AND LADDERS

Meaning of SNAKES AND LADDERS in English

■ plural noun [treated as sing. ] Brit. a children's board game in which players proceed by moving counters up ladders or down snakes depicted on the board, according to throws of a dice.

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SNAKES AND LADDERS
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SNAKES AND LADDERS — ( BrE ) noun [ U ] a children's game played on a special board with pictures of snakes and …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SNAKES AND LADDERS — ˌSnakes and ˈLadders BrE AmE British English , ‖ Chutes and Ladders American English trademark a type of ↑ board …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SNAKES AND LADDERS — Snakes and ladders is a British children’s game played with a board and dice. When you go up a ladder, …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SNAKES AND LADDERS — Snakes and ladders is a British children’s game played with a board and dice. When you go up a ladder, …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SNAKES AND LADDERS — [ U ] a popular children’s game. It is played with a dice on a board marked with squares, and …
Oxford Guide to British and American Culture English vocabulary
SNAKES AND LADDERS — змейки и лесенки, ? "вверх и вниз" (детская настольная игра; игроки передвигают фишки на доске по броску игрального кубика) название …
Англо-Русский словарь Britain
SNAKES AND LADDERS — Настольная игра
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
SNAKES AND LADDERS — "змейки и лесенки", ? "вверх и вниз" (детская настольная игра; игроки передвигают фишки на доске по броску игрального кубика) название по …
Великобритания - Лингвострановедческий словарь
SNAKES — plural of snake present third singular of snake
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LADDERS — plural of ladder present third singular of ladder
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SNAKES — Family slang term for money--because dollars, like snakes, are hard to hold on to. Example: I want to go to …
Slang English vocab
SNAKES — sneaks
Anagrams English vocabulary
LADDERS — saddler
Anagrams English vocabulary
SNAKES — светловины Змеи
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SNAKES — Змеи
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
LADDERS — Стремянки
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
SNAKES — светловины
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
LADDERS — Лестница f
English-Russian WinCept Glass dictionary
SNAKES — светловины Змеи
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
CHUTES AND LADDERS — ™ noun [ U ] ( US ) a children's game played on a special board with pictures of chutes …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CHUTES AND LADDERS — I. ˈChutes and ˈLadders BrE AmE trademark the name used in the US for the children's game of ↑ Snakes …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GO
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BLACK SNAKE — Any of several species of all-black or nearly all-black snakes. Australian black snakes are in the elapid genus Pseudeschis . …
Английский словарь Британика
LADDER — I. ˈladə(r) noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hlǣdder, hlǣder; akin to Middle …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LADDERWAY — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a series of ladders for passage up or down in a mine ; also : a compartment …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LADDERING — noun ( -s ) : ladders or material for ladders
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ESCALADE — — escalader , n. /es'keuh layd", -lahd", es"keuh layd', -lahd'/ , n. , v. , escaladed, escalading . n. 1. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
COLUBRID — /kol"euh brid, -yeuh-/ , n. 1. any of numerous, typically harmless snakes constituting the family Colubridae, having no vestigial limbs, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ESCALADE — vt to mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall. 2. escalade …
Webster English vocab
TREE SNAKE — any of a number of arboreal serpents, primarily of the family Colubridae. They prey on birds and on arboreal lizards …
Britannica English vocabulary
SNAKE — also called serpent, any member of the reptile group Serpentes, with the Sauria (lizards) and Amphisbaenia (wormlike amphisbaenians), one of …
Britannica English vocabulary
SEA SNAKE — any of more than 50 species of venomous marine snakes of the family Hydrophiidae. In adaptation to marine life, sea …
Britannica English vocabulary
LIZARD — any member of the suborder Sauria, a group of vertebrates that with snakes (suborder Serpentes) make up some 95 percent …
Britannica English vocabulary
KING SNAKE — (Lampropeltis), any of seven species belonging to the family Colubridae. They occur in numerous habitats from southeastern Canada to Ecuador. …
Britannica English vocabulary
GARTER SNAKE — any of more than a dozen species of snakes constituting the genus Thamnophis, in the family Colubridae. They have a …
Britannica English vocabulary
CORAL SNAKE — any of about 65 species of strongly patterned burrowing snakes of the cobra family, Elapidae. True coral snakes are confined …
Britannica English vocabulary
CAT SNAKE — (genus Telescopus), any of about 15 species belonging to the family Colubridae. Cat snakes have vertical pupils, like a cat, …
Britannica English vocabulary
BULL SNAKE — (Pituophis melanoleucus), North American constrictor of the family Colubridae. The species is called bull snake over much of its range, …
Britannica English vocabulary
BROWN SNAKE — any of several species of snakes named for their usual predominating colour. In New Guinea and Australia the name brown …
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BLIND SNAKE
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YEAR IN REVIEW 2000: LIFE-SCIENCES — BOTANY The politics surrounding the genetic engineering of plants became rancorous in 1999. In many Western European countries, trials of …
Britannica English vocabulary
LADDER — I. lad ‧ der 1 S3 /ˈlædə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: hlæder …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SNAKE — n. & v. --n. 1 a any long limbless reptile of the suborder Ophidia, including boas, pythons, and poisonous forms …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SNAKE — n. & v. n. 1 a any long limbless reptile of the suborder Ophidia, including boas, pythons, and poisonous forms …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SNAKE — n. & v. --n. 1. a any long limbless reptile of the suborder Ophidia, including boas, pythons, and poisonous forms …
Oxford English vocab
YOURSELF
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YOUR
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WORK — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a business/working lunch (= a lunch during which you also do business ) ▪ …
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WITH
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WELL — I. adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a better/greater/deeper understanding ▪ All of this will lead to a better understanding of …
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VENOMOUS — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a poisonous/venomous snake ▪ He warned me there were poisonous snakes in the region. COLLOCATIONS …
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UP
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TAKE
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SNAKE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES garter snake grass snake poisonous snake ▪ She was bitten on the ankle by …
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SET — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bunch/set of keys (= a group of keys kept together ) ▪ He …
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S
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ROPE
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PUT
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PREY — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bird of prey (= that hunts and eats small animals ) ▪ A …
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POISONOUS — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a poisonous substance ( also a noxious substance formal ) (= harmful to people ) …
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OUT
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OPEN — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a competition is open to sb (= used to say who can enter a …
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