🇬🇧 Domino meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A domino is a small, flat, rectangular game piece, usually made of wood or plastic, with dots on it that show numbers. People use many dominoes together to play matching games by lining up pieces that have the same number of dots. Kids also like to stand dominoes up in long lines and then push one so they all fall over in a chain reaction, which is very fun to watch.

The teacher used a domino to explain cause and effect, and then my clumsy hand demonstrated it perfectly.

One domino told the other, “If we fall, we fall together,” and then my elbow said, “Challenge accepted.”

My cat knocked over one domino and then blamed the entire falling domino line on gravity.

Mom used a domino to show fractions, and suddenly math looked like a tiny spotted army.

People around the world don’t just play games with a domino—they also line thousands of them up to make huge patterns that fall in amazing chain reactions called domino shows.

A child lined a domino on the table, then another domino beside it, matching the dots. Each new piece clicked to touch the last domino; bright eyes watched as a long row of domino curved across the floor. One gentle push sent each domino tumbling, the child's laugh rising as the final domino fell.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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