game
enPR: gām, IPA(key): /ɡeɪm/
Rhymes: -eɪm
From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).
Cognate with Old Frisian game, gome (“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.
game (countable and uncountable, plural games)
A playful or competitive activity.
A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
Synonyms: amusement, diversion, entertainment, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gambol, lark, merriment, merrymaking, pastime, play, prank, recreation, sport, spree
Antonyms: drudgery, work, toil
(countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:game
(UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
(countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
Synonym: match
That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
The number of points necessary to win a game.
See also: for the win
(card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
(countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
(countable) Ellipsis of video game.
(now rare) Lovemaking, flirtation.
(slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
(countable, informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
Synonym: line
(countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
(countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
Synonym: wargame
(countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
Synonyms: scheme, racket
(uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
(uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
(uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
(uncountable, archaic) Diversion, entertainment.
→ Brazilian Portuguese: game
→ Dutch: gamen, game
→ Irish: géim
→ Japanese: ゲーム
→ Korean: 게임 (geim), 겜 (gem)
→ Norman: gamme
→ Norwegian: gamen, game
→ Spanish: game
→ Welsh: gêm
→ Finnish: geimit
game (comparative gamer, superlative gamest)
(colloquial) Willing and able to participate.
Synonyms: sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiant
Antonyms: cautious, disinclined
(of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
game (third-person singular simple present games, present participle gaming, simple past and past participle gamed)
(intransitive) To gamble.
(intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
(transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
(transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
game the system
gamer
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
game (comparative more game, superlative most game)
(of a limb) Injured, lame.
game on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
MEGA, Mega, mage, mega, mega-
(leetspeak) 驚／惊 (geng1)
From English game (Cheung, 2007, page 220).
game
(Hong Kong Cantonese) game (especially video games and online games) (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
IPA(key): /ɡeːm/
Hyphenation: game
Rhymes: -eːm
Borrowed from English game.
game m (plural games, diminutive gamepje n)
A video game, an electronic game.
Synonyms: videogame, videospel
computerspel
gamen
gamer
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
game
inflection of gamen:
first-person singular present indicative
(dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
imperative
From Old English gamen, gomen, from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną, of disputed origin.
gamen, gemen, gomen, gome, gammen, gaume, gamme, gamin, gomin, gomyn, gomun, gam, geme
IPA(key): /ˈɡaːm(ə)/, /ˈɡam(ə)/, /ˈɡaːmən/, /ˈɡamən/
(from OE gomen) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔːm(ə)/, /ˈɡɔːmən/
(Kent) IPA(key): /ˈɡɛːm(ə)/, /ˈɡɛːmən/
game (plural games or game)
Entertainment or an instance of it; that which is enjoyable:
A sport or other outdoor or physical activity.
A game; a codified (and often competitive) form of entertainment.
Sexual or romantic entertainment or activity (including intercourse in itself).
An amusing, joking, or humorous activity or event.
Any kind of event or occurrence; something that happens:
An endeavour; a set of actions towards a goal.
Any kind of activity having competition or rivalry.
The state of being happy or joyful.
Game; wild animals hunted for food.
(rare) One's quarry; that which one is trying to catch.
(rare) Gamesmanship; gaming behaviour.
(rare) The reward for winning a game.
gameful
gamely
gamen
English: game, gammon (dialectal gam) (see there for further descendants)
Scots: gemme, gem, gyem
Yola: gaame, gaume, gaaume
“gāme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-09.
From Old English gæmnian, gamnian, gamenian.
game
Alternative form of gamen
Unadapted borrowing from English game.
(Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɡejm/, /ˈɡej.mi/
game m (plural games)
(Brazil) electronic game (game played on an electronic device, such as a computer game, a video game or the like)
Synonyms: videojogo, jogo
For quotations using this term, see Citations:game.
jogo
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mi
Hyphenation: ga‧me
game
inflection of gamar:
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
game m (plural games)
(tennis) game
Borrowed from English game. Attested since 1900.
Homophone: gem
game n
(tennis, squash) game
(slang) game (ability to seduce someone)
Synonym: rizz
gammal i gamet
game in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
game in Svensk ordbok (SO)
English game
(Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɣem˧˧]
(Huế) IPA(key): [ɣem˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA(key): [ɣem˧˧]
Phonetic: ghêm
game
(video games) Synonym of trò chơi điện tử (“a video game”)
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