English

Alternative forms

• GamerGate

Proper noun

Gamergate

1. A controversy that started in 2014, and happened primarily online, around issues of sexism and progressivism in video game culture and harassment of women in the video game industry.

Derived terms

• Gamergater

English

A female Pachycondyla berthoudi worker

Noun

gamergate ‎(plural gamergates)

1. (entomology) A worker insect that can become capable of reproducing when the queen has died.
   • 1990, Christian Peeters, “Monogyny and Polygyny in Ponerine Ants Without Queens”, in Social Insects and the Environment: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of IUSSI, 1990, Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-09316-4, page 234:

     Recent studies indicate that queenless societies can have either one or several gamergates per colony, which reveals that reproductive inhibition can occur despite the absence of the queen caste.

See also

• Gamergate