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# conker

noun (a conker, conkers; conkers — a game)

«conker» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A conker is the shiny brown seed of a horse chestnut tree, found inside a spiky green case. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#m1)
2. Conkers is a children's game, mainly in the UK and Ireland, where you put a conker on a string and try to break the other player's conker. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#m2)

### In the lessons

In nature lessons in the UK and Ireland, children collect conkers in autumn and learn about horse chestnut trees and seeds. Conkers is a traditional playground game. Phrases: play conkers, collect conkers, a conker case.

### Examples

- We collected conkers in the park in autumn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#x1)
- The conker was shiny and brown. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#x2)
- Grandpa showed me how to play conkers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#x3)
- My conker broke on the first hit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#x4)
- Conkers grow inside spiky green cases. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#x5)
- Don't eat conkers; they are poisonous. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#x6)
- I put a hole in the conker and threaded a string through it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#x7)

### Note

Countable: a conker, conkers. Mainly British and Irish; in the USA and Canada people say horse chestnut or buckeye. Conkers are not sweet chestnuts and must not be eaten; they can make people and dogs ill. Spelling: conker, not conquer (to defeat).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «conker» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«conker» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/conker.html) on Mova free.