en passant
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed
Types & categories
- capture hypernym
Related & opposite
- chess game domain topic
Sense 2 adverb
incidentally; in the course of doing something else
he made this remark in passing
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | chess game |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | capture |