chemin de fer

Questions about chemin de fer

What is another word for chemin de fer?

It depends which chemin de fer you mean. In the sense “a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine”, the synonyms are baccarat. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of chemin de fer?

WordNet records no antonym for chemin de fer. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for chemin de fer come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of chemin de fer

• Full entry for chemin de ferAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for chemin de ferWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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