parlor game

1. 1.

   a game suitable for playing in a parlor

   Synonymsparlour game

   Broadergame

   Narrowerword gameboard game

Questions about parlor game

What does parlor game mean?

parlor game means "a game suitable for playing in a parlor".

What is another word for parlor game?

Close synonyms include parlour game. 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 parlor game a common word?

parlor game 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.