Noun: gamer
| Singular | gamer |
| Plural | gamers |
Sample Sentences
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[…] any dice-player, carder, tennis player, or other unlawful gamer. [1422, Code of Laws of Walsall]
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These dice are the gamers' weapons […] [2002, Gary Alan Fine, Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds, page 93:]
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That the Parliament congratulates the online gamer, Harry Brewis, who is known by the handle HBomberGuy, […] [2019, The Scottish Parliament, Motion S5M-15504 https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx?SearchType=Advance&ReferenceNumbers=S5M-15504&ResultsPerPage=10]
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A country that's enriched the world with sushi, karaoke and manga, Japan has many devotees, especially among gamers and geeks. [2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2022:]
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These real-time elements feel fresh, holding engagement in the fight playing out on-screen, while also offering gamers an extra level of control over proceedings. [2025 February 26, Robert Jones, “Clair Obscur: Expedition 33”, in PC Gamer (US), number 392, page 32:]
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Near-synonym: gamesman
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[…] 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:]
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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 122 (November 19, 1845)]
Nouns inflected like gamer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *gamaną
3. Proto-West Germanic *gaman
4. Old English gamen
5. Middle English game
6. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
7. Proto-Italic *-āzios
8. Latin -āriusnom.
9. Latin -āriusbor.
10. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
11. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
12. Old English -ere
13. Middle English -ere
14. Middle English gamer
15. English gamer
16. From Middle English gamer, attested since before 1450 as a common noun and possibly since 1248 in the name of one Johannes le Gamer. Equivalent to game (noun) + -er (occupational suffix). See: Middle English Nouns '
gamer'.
Verbs referencing "gamer"
Danish Nouns
gamer, Dutch Nouns
gamer, French Nouns
gamer, Russian Nouns
геймер, Ukrainian Nouns
геймер, German Nouns
Gamer, Ukrainian Nouns
ґеймер.