game

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From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-Germanic *gamanan (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”). Cognate with Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.

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game (countable and uncountable; plural games)

  1. (countable) A pursuit or activity with rules performed either alone or with others, for the purpose of entertainment. In many games, the objective is to win by defeating the other player or players or being the first to reach a specified goal, while in others, role-playing or cooperation is emphasized.
    Shall we play a game?
  2. (sports) A contest between two individuals or teams. A game may refer to the entire encounter between the two (e.g. a basketball game), or to just one contest of several required to win (e.g. a tennis game).
  3. (military) An exercise simulating warfare for the purpose of training personnel, testing combat readiness, or to better understand various possible outcomes of various strategies or tactics. The exercise may involve human participants, or it may be simulated, often with the aid of computers.
  4. (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
    The forest has plenty of game.
  5. (countable) The entire being of an industry, activity or profession.
    When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
  6. (informal, used mostly of males) The ability to successfully seduce someone into a romantic or sexual relationship, usually achieved by pre-meditated strategy.
    He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.

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Terms derived from game (noun)

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pursuit or activity for entertainment
sport played in a lesson at school
wild animals hunted for food

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game (comparative gamer, superlative gamest)

  1. (colloquial) Willing to participate.
    I'm game, would you like to tell me how [to do that]? - From the computer game Adventure.
  2. (of an animal) An animal that shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.

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willing to participate

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game (third-person singular simple present games, present participle gaming, simple past and past participle gamed)

  1. (intransitive) To gamble.
  2. (intransitive) To play games and be a gamer.
  3. (transitive) To use a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
    We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
  4. (transitive, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

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to gamble — see gamble
to defeat the rules in order to obtain a result

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game

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gamen.
  2. singular present subjunctive of gamen.
  3. imperative of gamen.
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