game
Oznaczający (English)
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- A playful or competitive activity.
- A playful or competitive activity.
- A playful or competitive activity.
- A playful or competitive activity.
- A playful or competitive activity.
- A playful or competitive activity.
- A playful or competitive activity.
- A playful or competitive activity.
- A playful or competitive activity.
- A playful or competitive activity.
- Lovemaking, flirtation.
- (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- (informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- Wild animals hunted for food.
- (informal) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
- (slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- Diversion, entertainment.
Synonyms
secret plan
bet on
crucial moment
game fowl
piece of music
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
hunted animals
athletic game
football play
the halt
game playing
wild quadruped mammal
child’s play
officious
Częstotliwość
Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/ɡeɪm/
Etymologia (English)
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 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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