game meaning
EN
[ɡeɪm] [-eɪm] 
US WGame
- A game is structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.
- Key components of games are goals, rules, challenge, and interaction. Games generally involve mental or physical stimulation, and often both.
- Attested as early as 2600 BC, games are a universal part of human experience and present in all cultures. The Royal Game of Ur, Senet, and Mancala are some of the oldest known games.
- ^ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/game
- ^ Soubeyrand, Catherine (2000). "The Royal Game of Ur". The Game Cabinet. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
- NounPLgamesPREge-SUF-game
- A playful or competitive activity.
- Being a child is all fun and games.
- Games in the classroom can make learning fun.
- Sally won the game.
- They can turn the game around in the second half.
- In short whist, five points are game.
- Some of the games in the closet we have on the computer as well.
- Study can help your game of chess.
- Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.
- NC INF (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
- He's in the securities game somehow.
- NC (figuratively) 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.
- NC (military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- NU Wild animals hunted for food.
- The forest has plenty of game.
- NU INF (used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
- He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.
- NC A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
- You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?
- A playful or competitive activity.
- VerbSGgamesPRgamingPT, PPgamed
- VI To gamble.
- VI To play games and be a gamer.
- VT 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.
- VT SLA (of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
- VI To gamble.
- AdjectiveCOMgamerSUPgamest
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Many game reserves are located in Africa. Most are open to the public, and tourists commonly take sightseeing safaris.
- Newcastle and Blackburn played out a goalless draw in a game that the Magpies dominated at Ewood Park.
- They watched the game and pigged out on chips and pizza.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Game 1 and 2 I get horribly manascrewed. I never have more than 2 lands.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- I don't know how, but she managed to wrangle us four front row seats at tonight's game.
- That was a real slobber knocker of a football game.
- The Jayhawks completely womped on the hapless Nimrods in today's opening-round game.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of game in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Morphemes
- Prefixes
- Words by prefix
- Words prefixed with ge-
- Words prefixed with ge-
- Words by prefix
- Prefixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "game" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a prefixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.