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Definition: Croquet |
CroquetNoun1. A game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg. Verb1. Drive away by hitting with one's ball, of an opponent's ball. 2. Play croquet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "croquet" was first used: 1858. (references) |
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Literature | Croquet A game played with a sort of bandy stick. The crook was superseded by a kind of mallet. Du Cange gives "Croque, croquebois, croquet, bâton armé d'un croc, ou qui est recourbé" (vol. vii. p. 115). The art of the game is to strike your balls through very small hoops arranged in a given order. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Croquet is a recreational game and, latterly, a competitive sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena.The game was apparently invented in Ireland in the 1830s and taken to England as a pastime of the aristocracy in the 1850s. It made its way to the United States, Australia, and France, and whilst never hugely popular has continued to maintain a following.
There are several variations of croquet played, differing in the scoring systems, order of shots, and layout (particularly in social games where play must be adapted to smaller-than-standard playing fields). The main competitive variations played in the UK are golf croquet, where each player takes turns trying to hit a ball through the same hoop, the winner being the player who manages to hit the ball through the most hoops first, and association croquet, where players can take multiple shots in one turn provided while they either a) hit the ball through another hoop, or b) hit another ball. In association croquet, the winner is the player who hits a ball through all hoops and a special ending "pin" also embedded in the ground. There are other variations popular in other croquet-playing nations.
As well as club-level games, there are regular world championships and international matches between croquet-playing countries.
Some people consider croquet to be viciously competitive. The game is depicted being played in the cult film, Heathers.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Croquet."
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At the 1900 Summer Olympics, three croquet events were contested. Seven men and three women participated.
Pos Athlete 1 Aumoitte (FRA) 2 Johin (FRA) 3 Waydelich (FRA)
Pos Athlete 1 Waydelich (FRA) 2 Vignerot (FRA) 3 Sautereau (FRA)
Pos Athlete 1 France Aumoitte, Johin Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Croquet at the 1900 Summer Olympics."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Park, plaisance; national park, national forest, state park, county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) a; arbor; garden; (horticulture); pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum, skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne Russe. |
Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. | |
Horizontality | Plain, floor, platform, bowling green; cricket ground; croquet ground, croquet lawn; billiard table; terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Croquet |
| English words defined with "croquet": croquet ball, croquet equipment, croquet mallet, Croqueted, Croqueting ♦ hoop ♦ mallet ♦ wicket, Wimbledon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Croquet" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (croquet), Italian (croquet), Spanish (crocket). |
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 | U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital, Blois, France. : Patients recovering from neurosis or "shell shock" relax by playing croquet. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Women student activities - playing croquet, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Playing croquet at American Legion fish fry, Oldham County, Post 39, near Louisville, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Holy Child School, Suffern, New York. Croquet. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Look at the way Croquet is demoralizing Society |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | At the end of the unit there was a level place on which a croquet court had been set up. |
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| "Croquet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.17% of the time. "Croquet" is used about 120 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.17% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.83% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 120 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "croquet": croquet ball ♦ croquet equipment ♦ croquet mallet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "croquet": croquet-ground. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "croquet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hokej mbi bar. (various references) | |
Arabic | كروكيت لعبة, لعب كروكي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | крокет (lawn-hockey), крокиране. (various references) | |
Czech | kroket. (various references) | |
Danish | kroketspil til indendoers brug (indoor croquet). (various references) | |
Dutch | saloncroquet (indoor croquet). (various references) | |
Farsi | نوعی بازی باگوی وحلقه , کروکت . (various references) | |
Finnish | kroketti. (various references) | |
French | croqueter, croquet. (various references) | |
German | Krocket. (various references) | |
Greek | κροκέ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קרוקט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | krokett (croquette, cutlet). (various references) | |
Italian | croquet. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | クロス商い (chloromycetin, chromatography, chromium, chronicle, chrono, chronobiology, chronograph, chronometer, chronoscope, clock, clomiphene, closet, crocus, Cro-Magnon, cropped pants, cross trade, crossing zone, Kronecker, Kronecker delta). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | クロッケー . (various references) | |
Manx | crokay. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oquetcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | croquete (croquette). (various references) | |
Romanian | crochet. (various references) | |
Russian | крокет. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kriket (cricket). (various references) | |
Spanish | juego de croquet. (various references) | |
Swedish | krocket. (various references) | |
Turkish | tahta top ve sopalarla oynanan oyun, krokette top sürmek, kroket (croquette). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | крокетувати, крокет. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bóng v". (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "croquet": croqueted, croqueting, croquets, croquette, croquettes. (additional references) | |
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"Croquet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caraque, Choque, Choquel, coquat, Coque, coquett, craque, crocata, crokay, croqet, croquant, croque, croques, croquete, croquett, Crouzet, Rouquet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-q-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: coquet, couter, quoter, roquet, torque. | |
-2 letters: court, cruet, curet, cuter, eruct, outer, outre, quote, recto, recut, roque, route, toque, truce. | |
-3 letters: cero, core, cote, cure, curt, cute, ecru, euro, rote, roue, rout, torc, tore, tour, true. | |
-4 letters: cor, cot, cue, cur, cut, ecu, orc, ore, ort, our, out, rec, ret, roc, roe, rot, rue. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-q-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: coquetry, croquets. | |
+2 letters: croqueted, croquette. | |
+3 letters: coquetries, croqueting, croquettes, quercitron, reconquest. | |
+4 letters: corequisite, equivocator, preconquest, quercitrons, reconquests. | |
+5 letters: corequisites, equivocators, quattrocento. | |
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