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# conker

«conker» in Mova's school dictionary: **the shiny brown seed of a horse chestnut tree, found…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) A conker is the shiny brown seed of a horse chestnut tree, found inside a spiky green case. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#x1)
- The conker was shiny and brown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#x2)
- Grandpa showed me how to play conkers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#x3)
- My conker broke on the first hit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#x4)
- Conkers grow inside spiky green cases. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/#x5)
- Don't eat conkers; they are poisonous. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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).

### In the corpora

- [Granny puts conkers in the corners «for the spiders», and the cartoon squirrel remembers every nut it buries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/4/)
- [The game of conkers has a world championship held every year in England.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/8/)
- [Collect conkers, acorns and pine cones for crafts, but never eat conkers or acorns, because they are poisonous.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/21/)
- [In Year 3 Sam and Jake did everything together: dens, conkers, the same rubbish joke about the dinner lady's gravy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/464-growing-apart/0/)
- [Jake is too cool to say he wants to play conkers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.