Chaturanga is an English word. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Chaturanga in a sentence
Chaturanga meaning
An ancient Indian game, its rules not fully known, presumed to be the ancestor of chess and similar games.
Using Chaturanga
- The main meaning on this page is: An ancient Indian game, its rules not fully known, presumed to be the ancestor of chess and similar games.
Context around Chaturanga
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chaturanga
- In this selection, "chaturanga" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, novellas, shesher, lakmal and family stand out and add context to how "chaturanga" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include four novellas chaturanga shesher kobita and in chaturanga this piece. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chaturanga" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chaturanga
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Tagore wrote eight novels and four novellas – Chaturanga, Shesher Kobita, Char Odhay, and Noukadubi. (14 words)
Yesterday (5) Chaturanga Lakmal and Dinusha Gomes won bronze medals for weightlifting in their respective categories. (16 words)
In chaturanga, this piece moved directly forward, capturing to the sides (one square diagonally forward to the left or right). (20 words)
Masuda’s assertion is said to have eventually led to the exemption of shogi from the list of items to be banned. citation The closest cousin of shogi in the chaturanga family is makruk of Thailand. (36 words)
In chaturanga, this piece moved directly forward, capturing to the sides (one square diagonally forward to the left or right). (20 words)
Yesterday (5) Chaturanga Lakmal and Dinusha Gomes won bronze medals for weightlifting in their respective categories. (16 words)
Example sentences (4)
Tagore wrote eight novels and four novellas – Chaturanga, Shesher Kobita, Char Odhay, and Noukadubi.
Yesterday (5) Chaturanga Lakmal and Dinusha Gomes won bronze medals for weightlifting in their respective categories.
In chaturanga, this piece moved directly forward, capturing to the sides (one square diagonally forward to the left or right).
Masuda’s assertion is said to have eventually led to the exemption of shogi from the list of items to be banned. citation The closest cousin of shogi in the chaturanga family is makruk of Thailand.