gamer
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪmɚ/
- Rhymes: -eɪmə(r)
Etymology 1
- Originated circa 1422, in Middle English. game (“noun”) + -er (“agent suffix”)
Noun
gamer (plural gamers)
- A person who plays any kind of game.
- 1422, Code of Laws of Walsall:
- […] any dice-player, carder, tennis player, or other unlawful gamer.
- 2002, Gary Alan Fine, Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds (page 93)
- These dice are the gamers' weapons […]
- 1422, Code of Laws of Walsall:
- A person whose hobby is video games.
- A person who games the system.
- 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.
- 2016, Eric Lovald, Hugely Confused
- (obsolete) A gambler
- 1845 The Head Quarters, Volume III, Number 22 (December 19, 1845)
- The gamer is farther from restoration even than the drunkard, because what he does he does in the light of sobriety and reason.
- 1845 The Head Quarters, Volume III, Number 22 (December 19, 1845)
References
Gamer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “gamer” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “gamer” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɛ.mœʁ/
Audio (file) - Homophone: gamers
Noun
gamer m (plural gamers)
- A person whose hobby is video games.
- A high-end laptop designed to play video games.
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡamer/
- Rhymes: -mer, -er, -r
Noun
gamer (Jawi spelling ݢامر, informal first-person possessive gamerku, informal second-person possessive gamermu, third-person possessive gamernya)
- hesitate to want to make something out of shame etc.
See also
- janggal (“awkward”)
- malu (“shame”)
- teragak-agak (“hesitate”)
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