video game console

See also: video-game console and videogame console

English

A collection of various classic video game consoles at a game show in 2010

Alternative forms

• video-game console, videogame console, (nonstandard) video games console

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

video game console (plural video game consoles)

1. (video games) A dedicated electronic device that is designed to play video games, especially in accompaniment with a television.

   Synonyms: game console, games console, gaming console

   Hyponym: hand-held

Translations

dedicated electronic device that is designed to play video games

• Arabic: نظام ألعاب فيديو m, مشغل ألعاب الفيديو m
• Catalan: consola de joc (ca) f, videoconsola (ca) f, consola de jocs f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子遊戲控制台 / 电子游戏控制台 (diànzǐ yóuxì kòngzhìtái), 遊戲主機 / 游戏主机 (yóuxì zhǔjī), 遊戲機 / 游戏机 (zh) (yóuxìjī), 電視遊樂器 / 电视游乐器 (diànshì yóulèqì) (Taiwan)

• Czech: herní konzole f
• Danish: spillekonsol c
• Dutch: spelcomputer (nl) m or f, spelconsole (nl)
• Esperanto: konzolo
• Finnish: pelikonsoli (fi)
• French: console de jeux vidéo f, console de jeux f
• Georgian: სათამაშო აპარატი (satamašo aṗaraṭi), სათამაშო კონსოლი (satamašo ḳonsoli), ვიდეოთამაშების მოწყობილობა (videotamašebis moc̣q̇obiloba), ვიდეოთამაშების კონსოლი (videotamašebis ḳonsoli), ვიდეოთამაშების აპარატი (videotamašebis aṗaraṭi)
• German: Spielkonsole (de) f, Videospielkonsole f
• Greek: παιχνιδομηχανή (el) f (paichnidomichaní), παιχνιδοκονσόλα (el) f (paichnidokonsóla)
• Hungarian: videojáték-konzol
• Icelandic: leikjatölva
• Italian: console di videogiochi, console per videogiochi
• Japanese: ゲーム機 (ja) (gēmu-ki)
• Korean: 비디오 게임 콘솔 (bidio geim konsol), 게임기 (ko) (geimgi)
• Latin: consola ludis electronicis
• Malay: konsol permainan video
• Norwegian: spillkonsoll

  Nynorsk: spelekonsoll m

• Occitan: consòla de jòc f, consòla de jòcs f, videoconsòla f, consòla de juec f, consòla de juecs f
• Polish: konsola do gier f, konsola (pl) f, konsola gier wideo f
• Portuguese: console (pt) m, video game (pt) m (Brazil), consola (pt) f (Portugal)
• Romanian: consolă de joc video f, consolă (ro) f
• Russian: игрова́я приста́вка f (igrovája pristávka), игрова́я консо́ль f (igrovája konsólʹ)
• Scots: video gemme console
• Spanish: consola de videojuegos f
• Swedish: spelkonsol (sv)
• Tigrinya: ኮንሶል ቪድዮ (konsol vidyo)