game

Meaning

1. A playful or competitive activity.
2. A playful or competitive activity.
3. A playful or competitive activity.
4. A playful or competitive activity.
5. A playful or competitive activity.
6. A playful or competitive activity.
7. A playful or competitive activity.
8. A playful or competitive activity.
9. A playful or competitive activity.
10. A playful or competitive activity.
11. Lovemaking, flirtation.
12. (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
13. (informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
14. Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
15. An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
16. A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
17. Wild animals hunted for food.
18. (informal) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
19. (slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
20. Diversion, entertainment.

play

secret plan

bet on

crucial moment

game fowl

piece of music

plot line

public office

subject area

unsociable person

wild beast

wild beasts

wild fowl

dramatic presentation

feast 3

wild birds

children’s game

a kind of children’s game

gamebird

hunted animals

wild animals

athletic game

football play

the halt

game playing

wild quadruped mammal

child’s play

officious

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡeɪm/

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.

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