Nintendo
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Etymology [edit]
From Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂株式会社), the Japanese manufacturer, from Japanese 任天堂 (Nintendō, “Luck of Heaven”).
Noun [edit]
Nintendo (plural Nintendos)
- (video games, trademark) A Nintendo Entertainment System, or other video game system made by Nintendo.
- Wanna play on my Nintendo after school?
- 1995, David Gladstone, ed., British Social Welfare: Past, Present, and Future, page 274
- There is nothing wrong with the accoutrements of personal affluence, but if the numbers of personal stereos, Nintendos, mobile phones and cars grow […].
- 2005, Lila Abu-Lughod, Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt, page 280
- These professionals are the sort whose children play with Nintendos and own bikes
- 2005, Larry L. Meyer, No Paltry Thing: Memoirs Of A Geezer Dad, page 128
- Franz: “How do elves make Nintendos?” Dad: “You ask all the hard questions, don't you? I really don't know.”
- 2007, Ilene Schneider, Chanukah Guilt, page 106
- The only message at home was from my nephew, letting me know my mother was back home, safe and sound, except for a sore "Nintendo thumb".
- 2007, Anthony Ham and Alison Bing, Morocco, Lonely Planet, ISBN 1740599748, page 34
- He was far more interested in bullfighting, which was the Nintendo of the day, only considerably more dangerous
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Translations [edit]
Nintendo Entertainment System, or other video game system made by Nintendo
