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gamer

gamer

English

Noun

gamer (plural gamers)

  1. One who games something.
    • 2016, Eric Lovald, Hugely Confused
      [] the real 'takers' in this country are commercial gamers of the system who are only in it to swipe a fast buck from the common trust.
  2. One who plays a game of any kind.
    • 2002, Gary Alan Fine, Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds (page 93)
      These dice are the gamers' weapons []
  3. (video games) A person who plays video games.
Translations

Descendants

Etymology 2

  • game (adjective) + -er (former of comparatives)

Adjective

gamer

  1. comparative form of game: more game

References

  • Gamer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • gamer” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
  • gamer” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowing from English gamer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈgεjmʌ]

Noun

gamer c (singular definite gameren, plural indefinite gamere)

  1. gamer

Inflection

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English gamer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /gɛ.mœʁ/
  • Homophone: gamers

Noun

gamer m (plural gamers)

  1. A fan of video games.
  2. A high-end laptop designed to play video games.

Spanish

Noun

gamer m, f (plural gamers)

  1. gamer