"back rank" meaning in English

See back rank in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: back ranks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} back rank (plural back ranks)
  1. (chess) The row on the board on which the pieces (e.g. king, queen) start. Wikipedia link: back rank Categories (topical): Chess Translations (Translations): perärivi (Finnish), Grundreihe [feminine] (German), mat korytarzowy [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-back_rank-en-noun-Zyth3ESA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: board-games, chess, games

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for back rank meaning in English (1.4kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "back ranks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "back rank (plural back ranks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Chess",
          "orig": "en:Chess",
          "parents": [
            "Board games",
            "Tabletop games",
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The row on the board on which the pieces (e.g. king, queen) start."
      ],
      "id": "en-back_rank-en-noun-Zyth3ESA",
      "links": [
        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ],
        [
          "row",
          "row"
        ],
        [
          "board",
          "board"
        ],
        [
          "piece",
          "piece"
        ],
        [
          "king",
          "king"
        ],
        [
          "queen",
          "queen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chess) The row on the board on which the pieces (e.g. king, queen) start."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "board-games",
        "chess",
        "games"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "perärivi"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Grundreihe"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mat korytarzowy"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "back rank"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "back rank"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "back ranks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "back rank (plural back ranks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:Chess"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The row on the board on which the pieces (e.g. king, queen) start."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chess",
          "chess"
        ],
        [
          "row",
          "row"
        ],
        [
          "board",
          "board"
        ],
        [
          "piece",
          "piece"
        ],
        [
          "king",
          "king"
        ],
        [
          "queen",
          "queen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chess) The row on the board on which the pieces (e.g. king, queen) start."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "board-games",
        "chess",
        "games"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "back rank"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "perärivi"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Grundreihe"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mat korytarzowy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "back rank"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.