game

Meaning

Noun

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

Adj

1. (colloquial) Willing and able to participate.
2. That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
3. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To gamble.
2. (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
3. (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.
4. (slang, transitive) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

Adj

Injured, lame.

Opposite of

drudgery, work, toil, cautious, disinclined

Synonyms

play

match

sport

contest

fun

competition

recreation

bout

amusement

booty

playing

trick

dance

💃

meat

🥩

plot

gaming

set

plaything

pastime

lame

gimpy

gamey

gamy

joke

🤣

stake

toy

entertainment

gamble

spunky

catch

mirth

performance

jugglery

diversion

dirty trick

intrigue

mettlesome

prizefight

back

🔙

gritty

daring

bold

biz

crippled

animal

🐾

halt

frolic

hunting

bet on

bet

Translations

jeu

Spiel

gioco

juego

jogo

spel

gibier

παιχνίδι

Wild

oyun

selvaggina

partie

match

Partie

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡeɪm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: game

Inherited from Old English: gamen

Cognate with Old Frisian: game

Cognate with Middle High German: gamen

Cognate with Swedish: gamman

Cognate with Icelandic: gaman

In summary

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 Yola gaame, gaaume, gaume (“game”), Old Frisian game, gome (“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Dutch gemelijk (“cantankerous, crabbed”), Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Danish gammen (“merriment”), Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk gaman (“joy, fun”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”). Related to gammon, gamble.

Sentences

There is no set release date for the game .

" It has been a good game ," he says before he dies .

After character creation the game runs its course .

The game had mediocre reception .

It is a side-scrolling platform game .

The game was narrated by Tom Baker of " Doctor Who " fame .