chess piece

1. 1.

   any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess

   Synonymschessman

   Broaderman

   Narrowerbishopcastlekingknightpawnqueen

   Part ofchess set

Questions about chess piece

What does chess piece mean?

chess piece means "any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess".

What is another word for chess piece?

Close synonyms include chessman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chess piece a common word?

chess piece is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.