Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word game. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in game.
Definitions and meaning of game
game
Pronunciation
enPR: gām, IPA(key): /ɡeɪm/
Rhymes: -eɪm
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishgame, gamen, gammen, from Old Englishgamen(“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic*gaman, from Proto-Germanic*gamaną(“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), 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 Frisiangame, gome(“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Middle High Germangamen(“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedishgamman(“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandicgaman(“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.
Noun
game (countable and uncountable, pluralgames)
A playful or competitive activity.
A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
(of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
Translations
Verb
game (third-person singular simple presentgames, present participlegaming, simple past and past participlegamed)
(intransitive) To gamble.
(intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
(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.
(transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
Derived terms
game the system
gamer
Translations
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective
game (comparativemore game, superlativemost game)
(of a limb) Injured, lame.
See also
game on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
MEGA, Mega, mage, mega, mega-
Chinese
Alternative forms
(leetspeak)驚/惊(geng1)
Etymology
From Englishgame (Cheung, 2007, page 220).
Pronunciation
Noun
game
(Hong Kong Cantonese)game(especially video games and online games)(Classifier: 隻/只c)
Derived terms
References
English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
Dutch
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡeːm/
Hyphenation: game
Rhymes: -eːm
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Englishgame.
Noun
gamem (pluralgames, diminutivegamepjen)
A video game, an electronic game.
Synonyms:videogame, videospel
Hyponyms
computerspel
Related terms
gamen
gamer
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
game
inflection of gamen:
first-person singular present indicative
(dated or formal)singular present subjunctive
imperative
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old Englishgamen, gomen, from Proto-West Germanic*gaman, from Proto-Germanic*gamaną, of disputed origin.