Sega
English
Etymology
From Japanese セガ (Sega), an abbreviation of English service games, because the company's earliest products were aimed at American servicemen on military bases.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Sega
- (video games, trademark) A Japanese video game developer and publisher and manufacturer of arcade games and formerly of video game consoles.
Translations
Japanese videogame developer
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Noun
Sega (plural Segas)
- Any of various video game consoles manufactured by this company.
- 2007, S. Westwood, Suicide Junkie:
- I would lay in bed for a few hours playing games on my Sega, getting totally absorbed in it as though it were all real and then I would sleep for the rest of the day.
Translations
console manufactured by Sega
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
Sega
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