Associations to the word «Mahjong»

Wiktionary

MAHJONG, noun. A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
MAHJONG, noun. A solitaire game using the same tiles.

Dictionary definition

MAHJONG, noun. Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats