Minecraft
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See also: minecraft
English
Etymology
Compound of mine + craft; coined by Paul Eres in May 2009, a member of the TIGSource Forums.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪnˌkɹæft/
- Rhymes: -æft
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪnˌkɹɐːft/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪnˌkɹɑːft/
- Rhymes: -ɑːft
- Hyphenation: Mine‧craft
Proper noun
Minecraft
- (video games) A sandbox video game, released in 2011, in which players explore a three-dimensional world made of blocks and can craft items and build structures.
- Synonym: MC
- 2016 September 13, Vanessa Friedman, “New York Fashion Week Comes to Life With Thom Browne and Proenza Schouler”, in The New York Times:
- Chlorine blue, bordered in forest green and looking out onto a Grecian gazebo, the pool was composed of hundreds of ceramic kitchen tiles, like a Minecraft version of C.Z. Guest’s once-upon-a-time world.
- 2019 February 25, Dale Berning Sawa, “Why the world has gone wild for reversible sequins”, in The Guardian:
- If you know a tween, chances are you have bought them something sparkly in the past couple of years – and not only if they are a girl. From Next’s boys’ sequinned T-shirt that flips between Minecraft designs to Paperchase’s rainbow-encrusted notebook […], these addictively tactile surfaces are everywhere.
- 2022 August 24, India Block, “Like a beige, banal biscuit tin: why London’s new buildings all look the same”, in The Guardian:
- London’s mayoralty insists that its new homes must look like old homes – just new, and more of them. So the city has ended up with endless variations of a Georgian terrace that looks like it’s been rendered in Minecraft.
Derived terms
Translations
the game Minecraft
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Verb
Minecraft (third-person singular simple present Minecrafts, present participle Minecrafting, simple past and past participle Minecrafted)
- (intransitive) To play the videogame Minecraft.
References
- ^ Persson, Markus (2009 May 14) “Minecraft: Order of the Stone”, in Tumblr, archived from the original on 14 May 2021
- ^ Eres, Paul (2009 May 18) “Re:Minecraft(alpha)”, in TIGSource Forums, archived from the original on 2017-07-07
Czech
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Minecraft m inan
- Minecraft (video game)
Declension
Declension of Minecraft (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Minecraft |
| genitive | Minecraftu |
| dative | Minecraftu |
| accusative | Minecraft |
| vocative | Minecrafte |
| locative | Minecraftu |
| instrumental | Minecraftem |
Dutch
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Minecraft n
- Minecraft (video game)
French
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Minecraft m
German
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Minecraft n (proper noun, strong, genitive Minecrafts)
Declension
Declension of Minecraft
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.
Proper noun
Minecraft m
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Minecraft m
- (video games) Minecraft
- Synonym: Mine
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Minecraft m