Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context games UK NZ English) A two-player game played on a three-by-three grid, in which players take it in turns to play their respective symbol (either a nought or a cross) in a cell of the grid, the objective being to form a row, column or diagonal of three of one's own symbol.
WordNet
n. a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a 3-by-3 board; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does [syn: ticktacktoe, ticktacktoo, tick-tack-toe, tic-tac-toe, tit-tat-toe]
Wikipedia
Noughts and Crosses was an Australian television game show which aired live on Sundays from 1957 to 1960 on Melbourne station HSV-7. The half-hour series was hosted by Geoff Raymond, though Danny Webb hosted four episodes in 1960. Archival status of this game show is unknown.
Noughts & Crosses is an alternative name for the game Tic-tac-toe
Noughts & Crosses may also refer to:
- Noughts & Crosses (novel series), by Malorie Blackman
- Noughts and Crosses (TV series), Australian television game show
- Knots and Crosses, crime novel by Ian Rankin
- Knots and Crosses (Rebus), 2007 episode of STV's Rebus television series
Usage examples of "noughts and crosses".
Liza asked God to guard Tess and Culum and the ship and all of them, then sat down and began to play a game of noughts and crosses with Lillibet.
He saw the oak table in the middle of the room, its sturdy legs and round top etched with marks and writing that Bethan had encouraged the young Thom to make, for they - the scratched names, dates, even the games such as hangman and noughts and crosses, together with little clumsily rendered drawings - gave the wood an extra dimension, turned it into a receptacle for Thom's earliest energies, his imagination, his raw but enthusiastic carvings, such efforts absorbed by grain and fibre and sealed within to create a scrapbook of scratchings, a wooden time-capsule of early impressions.