game

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Енглески

Pronunciation

• enPR: gām, IPA^(кључ): /ɡeɪm/

• Audio (US):

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• Риме: -eɪm

Etymology 1

From Средњи Енглески game, gamen, gammen, from , from , from , 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”), Шведски gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.

Noun

game (countable and uncountable, plural games)

2. A playful or competitive activity.
   2. A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.

      Синонимs: amusement, diversion, entertainment, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gambol, lark, merriment, merrymaking, pastime, play, prank, recreation, sport, spree

      Антонимs: drudgery, work, toil

      Being a child is all fun and games.

   3. (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.

      Синоним: Thesaurus:game

      Games in the classroom can make learning fun.

   4. (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
      • Шаблон:RQ:Fry Liar
   6. (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.

      Синоним: match

      Sally won the game.

      They can turn the game around in the second half.

      • Шаблон:RQ:Ferguson Zollenstein
   8. That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
   10. The number of points necessary to win a game.

       In short whist, five points are game.

       See also: for the win

   12. (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
   14. (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.

       Some of the games in the closet we have on the computer as well.

   16. One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.

       Study can help your game of chess.

       Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.

       • Шаблон:RQ:Salinger Catcher
   18. (countable) video game.

4. (now rare) Lovemaking, flirtation.
6. (slang) Шаблон:1. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
   • Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida

8. (countable, informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

   Синоним: line

   When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.

   He's in the securities game somehow.

10. (countable, figurative) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

    In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.

    • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 77, column 2:

      I ſee you ſtand like Grey-hounds in the ſlips, / Straying vpon the Start. The Game’s afoot:

    • Шаблон:RQ:Ferguson Zollenstein

12. (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

    Синоним: wargame

14. (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.

    Синонимs: scheme, racket

    You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?

    • 1845, Blackwood Magazine:

      Your murderous game is nearly up.

    • 1902, George Saintsbury, Dryden, page 182:

      It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.

16. (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.

    The forest has plenty of game.

    • 1907, John Burroughs, Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt‎^[1], Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, pages 5–6:

      I had known the President several years before he became famous, and we had had some correspondence on subjects of natural history. His interest in such themes is always very fresh and keen, and the main motive of his visit to the Park at this time was to see and study in its semi-domesticated condition the great game which he had so often hunted during his ranch days; and he was kind enough to think it would be an additional pleasure to see it with a nature-lover like myself.

18. (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

    He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.

20. (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.

    • 2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, Gettin' Our Groove on: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation, →ISBN, page 123:

      In the contemporary arts of the academic contact zone, I say African American students got game!

    • 2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 24:

      My dad had game at that kind of thing, and I spent long periods as a child watching him.

21. (uncountable, archaic) Diversion, entertainment.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Hall Epistles

Derived terms

• 163rd game
• adventure game
• after-game
• A game
• A-game
• ahead of the game
• all fun and games
• alternate reality game
• arcade game
• art game
• artillery game
• as game as Ned Kelly
• at the top of one's game
• away game
• back in the game
• back-seat game
• badger game
• Balbo's game
• ball game
• banking game
• beat someone at their own game
• beautiful game
• beer and pretzels game
• be game
• big game
• black game
• blame game
• blow this for a game of soldiers
• board game
• bowl game
• bullet-screen game
• cannon game
• card game
• cash game
• casual game
• catch someone at their own game
• cat's game
• centipede game
• change the game
• children's game
• choking game
• circle game
• city-building game
• clapping game
• clicker game
• cocktail game
• complete game
• computer game
• confidence game
• con game
• console game
• cooperative game
• Cornish game hen
• counting-out game
• crane game
• crunch game
• crying game
• dance game
• day game
• death game
• dice game
• door game
• doujin game
• dress-up game
• drinking game
• end game
• endgame
• end-game
• end of the ballgame, end of the ball game
• exhibition game
• expectations game
• extensive form game
• fair game
• field game
• fighting game
• fuck this for a game of soldiers
• fun and games
• game, set, match
• game as Ned Kelly
• game bag
• game ball
• game bird
• game board
• game camera
• game chair
• game changer
• game-changer
• game-changing
• game clock
• game club
• gamecock
• game console
• game controller
• game day
• game drive
• game-end
• game engine
• game face
• game-filled
• game fish
• game for a laugh
• game-goer
• game-head
• game jam
• game jammer
• game keeper
• game-keeper
• game laws
• gamely
• game-making
• game manager
• game master
• game mastering
• game mode
• game of chance
• game of chicken
• game of gotcha
• game of luck
• game of skill
• game of strategy
• game of the goose
• game of Troy
• game of two halves
• game on
• game out
• game over
• game-over
• game pad
• game park
• game piece
• game plan
• game-play
• gameplay
• game point
• game port
• gamer
• game rage
• game reserve
• game room
• game room, games room
• game save
• game score
• game sense
• game set
• game sheet
• game show
• gamesmanship
• game studies
• game-theoretical
• game theorist
• game theory
• game-time decision
• game warden
• game-winner
• game with a purpose
• gamey
• gamy
• German game
• give the game away
• god game
• good game
• grab game
• grand strategy game
• ground game
• guessing game
• gutter game
• hand game
• have fun and games
• head game
• head-game
• home game
• idle game
• imitation game
• incremental game
• in-game
• in-game currency
• in the game
• iron game
• killer game
• knife game
• language game
• late in the game
• late to the game
• launch game
• lift one's game
• long game
• lookers-on see most of the game
• love game
• make game of
• massively multiplayer online game
• massively multiplayer online role-playing game
• match-four game
• match-three game
• mathematical game
• May game
• Mazur game
• mechanical game
• medal game
• metagame
• metagaming
• middle game
• mind game
• mini-game
• mobile game
• mug's game
• Murphy game
• music game
• music video game
• name of the game
• new game +
• new game plus
• new to the game
• nomination game
• normal form game
• Northcott's game
• no shame in my game
• number game
• numbers game
• off one's game
• old army game
• only game in town
• on one's game
• on the game
• on top of one's game
• open game
• otome game
• panel game
• parity game
• parlor-game
• parlor game
• parlour-game
• parlour game
• party game
• penis game
• Penney's game
• perfect game
• pervasive game
• philosopher's game
• pick-up game
• pinch of the game
• pitch game
• platform game
• play a double game
• play games
• play someone at their own game
• play stupid games, win stupid prizes
• play the game
• play the pronoun game
• Ponzi game
• post game
• pre-game
• race game
• raise one's game
• redemption game
• reindeer games
• rhythm game
• ring game
• road game
• roaring game
• roleplaying game
• rôle-playing game
• role playing game
• role-playing game
• role-playing video game
• round game
• rules of the game
• run game
• run game on
• sandbox game
• saved game
• screw this for a game of soldiers
• semi-closed game
• semi-open game
• service game
• shell game
• Sir Philip Sidney game
• skin in the game
• small game
• sod that for a game of soldiers
• sod this for a game of soldiers
• stage of the game
• stealth game
• step up one's game
• strap game
• strategy game
• strongman game
• survival game
• tabletop game
• tactical role-playing game
• take-that game
• take the game to
• talk a big game
• talk a good game
• team game
• the game is not worth the candle
• the game is up
• tile-matching game
• town-building game
• Troy game
• TV game
• twitch game
• two can play at that game
• two can play at this game
• two can play that game
• two can play this game
• two-handed game
• tycoon game
• ultimatum game
• up one's game
• vantage game
• viddy game
• video arcade game
• video game
• video-game console
• video game console
• waiting game
• wall game
• war game
• whole new ball game
• wide game
• word game
• zero-sum game, zero sum game

 

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: game
• → Холандски: gamen, game
• → Ирски: géim
• → Јапански: ゲーム
• → Корејски: 게임 (geim), 겜 (gem)
• → Norman: gamme
• → Норвешки: gamen, game
• → Шпански: game
• → Велшки: gêm
• → Фински: geimit

Translations

playful activity that may be unstructured, amusement, pastime

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} bransch (sv) c

Adjective

game (comparative gamer, superlative gamest)

1. (colloquial) Willing and able to participate.

   Синонимs: sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiant

   Антонимs: cautious, disinclined

   • Шаблон:RQ:Melville Moby-Dick

2. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
3. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

Translations

willing to participate

• Bulgarian: охотен (bg) (ohoten)
• Czech: ochotný (cs), svolný, připravený (cs)
• German: bereit (de), dabei (de)
• Icelandic: með (is)
• Norwegian: med (no)
• Portuguese: dentro (pt)
• Swedish: med (sv), på (sv)

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To gamble.
   • 1898, “George Washington: Statesman, Christian Gentleman”, in Suggestive programs for special day exercises:

     an impressive protest against gaming, swearing, and all immoral practices which might forfeit divine aid in the great struggle for National Independence

2. (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.

3. (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of 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, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

   • 2010, Mystery, The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction, Villard Books, →ISBN, page 100:

     A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.

Derived terms

• game the system
• gamer

Translations

to gamble — see gamble

to play games

• Bulgarian: играя (bg) (igraja)
• Czech: hrát (cs) impf
• Finnish: pelata (fi), pelailla (fi)
• German: ^{(please verify)} zocken (de)
• Malayalam: കളിക്കുക (ml) (kaḷikkuka)
• Polish: grać (pl) impf

to defeat the rules in order to obtain a result

• Finnish: huijata (fi)
• Hungarian: kijátszik (hu)
• Portuguese: burlar (pt)
• Spanish: burlar (es)

Etymology 2

Adjective

game (comparative more game, superlative most game)

1. (of a limb) Injured, lame.
   • Шаблон:RQ:Henry Four Million
   • 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 29:

     He was done for, all right. I took out my six-shooter and aimed right between his eyes. He kicked once, sort of leaped—or tried to, and then lay still. I stood there a minute, to see if he had to have another. He was so game that, some way, I didn’t want to give him more than he needed.

See also

• game на Википедији.Википедији

Anagrams

• MEGA, Mega, mage, mega, mega- ^{(alphagram aegm)}

Кинески

Alternative forms

• (leetspeak) 驚／惊 (geng1)

Etymology

From Енглески game (Cheung, 2007, page 220).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gem¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gem¹
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gem¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gém¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɛːm⁵⁵/

Noun

game

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) game (especially video games and online games) (Класификатор: 隻／只 c)

Derived terms

• troll game
• 音game

 

References

• Шаблон:R:yue:ELHKC

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /ɡeːm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Хифенација: game
• Риме: -eːm

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Енглески game.

Noun

game m (plural games, diminutive gamepje n)

1. A video game, an electronic game.

   Синонимs: videogame, videospel

Hyponyms

• computerspel

Related terms

• gamen
• gamer

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

game

1. inflection of gamen:
   1. прво лице једнине презента индикатива
   2. (dated or formal) једнине презента subjunctive
   3. императива

Middle English

Etymology 1

From , from , from , of disputed origin.

Alternative forms

• gamen, gemen, gomen, gome, gammen, gaume, gamme, gamin, gomin, gomyn, gomun, gam, geme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /ˈɡaːm(ə)/, /ˈɡam(ə)/, /ˈɡaːmən/, /ˈɡamən/
• (from OE gomen) IPA^(кључ): /ˈɡɔːm(ə)/, /ˈɡɔːmən/
• (Kent) IPA^(кључ): /ˈɡɛːm(ə)/, /ˈɡɛːmən/

Noun

game (plural games or game)

1. Entertainment or an instance of it; that which is enjoyable:
   1. A sport or other outdoor or physical activity.
   2. A game; a codified (and often competitive) form of entertainment.
   3. Sexual or romantic entertainment or activity (including intercourse in itself).
   4. An amusing, joking, or humorous activity or event.
2. Any kind of event or occurrence; something that happens:
   1. An endeavour; a set of actions towards a goal.
   2. Any kind of activity having competition or rivalry.
3. The state of being happy or joyful.
4. Game; wild animals hunted for food.
5. (rare) One's quarry; that which one is trying to catch.
6. (rare) Gamesmanship; gaming behaviour.
7. (rare) The reward for winning a game.

Derived terms

• gameful
• gamely
• gamen

Descendants

• Енглески: game (see there for further descendants); gammon (dialectal gam)
• Шкотски: gemme, gem, gyem
• Yola: gaame

References

• “gāme” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-09.

Etymology 2

From , gamnian, gamenian.

Verb

game

1. Alternative form of gamen

Португалски

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing из Енглески game.

Pronunciation

• (BR) IPA^(кључ): /ˈɡejm/, /ˈɡej.mi/

Noun

game m (plural games)

1. (Brazil) electronic game (game played on an electronic device, such as a computer game, a video game or the like)

   Синонимs: videojogo, jogo

Quotations

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See also

• jogo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(кључ): /ˈɡɐ̃.mi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(кључ): /ˈɡɐ̃.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(кључ): /ˈɡɐ.me/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(кључ): /ˈɡɐ.mɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(кључ): /ˈɡɐ.mɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(кључ): /ˈɡa.mɨ/

• Риме: (Portugal) -ɐmɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mi
• Хифенација: ga‧me

Verb

game

1. Шаблон:pt-verb form of/error of gamar

Шпански

Noun

game m (plural games)

1. (tennis) game

Шведски

Etymology

Позајмљено од Енглески game. Attested since 1900.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: gem

Noun

game n

1. (tennis, squash) game
2. (slang) game (ability to seduce someone)

   Синоним: rizz

Declension

Declension of game
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	game	gameet	game	gameen
Genitive	games	gameets	games	gameens

Derived terms

• gammal i gamet

References

• game in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• game in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Вијетнамски

Etymology

Енглески game

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣem˧˧], [ɣɛm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣem˧˧], [ɣɛm˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɣem˧˧], [ɣɛm˧˧]
• Phonetic: ghêm, ghem

Noun

game

1. (video games) Synonym of trò chơi điện tử (“a video game”)

See also

• game thủ