board game vs noughts and crosses

noughts and crosses vs board game

board game and noughts and crosses both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
board game	Yes	No	No	No
noughts and crosses	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, noughts and crosses is a hyponym of board game; that is, noughts and crosses is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than board game:

board game: a game played on a specially designed board
noughts and crosses: a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does

Other hyponyms of board game include Scrabble, backgammon, checkers, draughts, chess, chess game, Chinese checkers, Chinese chequers, darts, go, go game, halma, beano, bingo, keno, lotto, ludo, Mah-Jongg, mahjong, Monopoly, pachisi, parchesi, parchisi, shove-ha'penny, shove-halfpenny, shovel board, snakes and ladders, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe.

board game (noun)	noughts and crosses (noun)
a game played on a specially designed board	a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does

Difference between board game and noughts and crosses

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