game – English noun declension

English noun forms of game

Noun: game
Singulargame
Pluralgames

Sample Sentences

  • Being a child is all fun and games.
  • Games in the classroom can make learning fun.
  • Joshua: Shall we play a game?
  • David: ... Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
  • Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?
  • David: Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
  • Joshua: Fine. [1983, Lawrence Lasker et al., WarGames:]
  • From time to time tracksuited boys ran past them, with all the deadly purpose and humourless concentration of those who enjoyed Games. [1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 26:]
  • Sally won the game.
  • They can turn the game around in the second half.
  • “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”. [1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:]
  • Game, set and match!
  • In short whist, five points are game, while in in table tennis game is 21 points.
  • See also: for the win
  • Some of the games in the closet we have on the computer as well.
  • Study can help your game of chess.
  • Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.
  • I played golf with her that same afternoon. She lost eight balls, I remember. Eight. I had a terrible time getting her to at least open her eyes when she took a swing at the ball. I improved her game immensely, though. [1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 11, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:]
  • There’s a sense here, as well as in games such as Limbo, that we’re making ourselves experience our children’s reality, trapped in the chaos that the adults have created. [2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian:]
  • When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
  • He's in the securities game somehow.
  • The rapper bragged about how he ran the game.
  • In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.
  • I ſee you ſtand like Grey-hounds in the ſlips, / Straying vpon the Start. The Game’s afoot: [1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 77, column 2:]
  • “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”. [1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:]
  • Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. [2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:]
  • You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?
  • Your murderous game is nearly up. [1845, Blackwood Magazine:]
  • It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack. [1902, George Saintsbury, Dryden, page 182:]
  • The forest has plenty of game.
  • I had known the President several years before he became famous, and we had had some correspondence on subjects of natural history. His interest in such themes is always very fresh and keen, and the main motive of his visit to the Park at this time was to see and study in its semi-domesticated condition the great game which he had so often hunted during his ranch days; and he was kind enough to think it would be an additional pleasure to see it with a nature-lover like myself. [1907, John Burroughs, Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, pages 5–6:]
  • A game of swans flew there and the water and the shore beneath were fouled with their greenwhite slime. [1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:]
  • He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.
  • She's strange, so strange, but I didn't complain / She said yes to me when I ran my game [1998, “She's Strange”, performed by Nate Dogg:]
  • ſet them downe, / For ſlottiſh ſpoyles of opportunitie; / And daughters of the game. [c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], lines 61–63:]
  • [H]e put spurs to his horse, and just in the twilight reached the gate, where, at that time, there happened to be two ladies of the game [translating mugeres moças], who being on their journey to Seville, with the carriers, had chanced to take up their night's lodging in this place. [1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.2:]
  • What is game? Who got game? / Where's the game in life, behind the game behind the game / I got game, she's got game / We got game, they got game, he got game [1998, “He Got Game”, performed by Public Enemy:]
  • In the contemporary arts of the academic contact zone, I say African American students got game! [2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, Gettin' Our Groove on: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation, →ISBN, page 123:]
  • My dad had game at that kind of thing, and I spent long periods as a child watching him. [2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 24:]
  • To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long, hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds better game in his ſtudie, then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder. [1611, Joseph Hall, “Epistle VIII. To E.B. Dedicated to Sir George Goring.”, in Epistles […], volume III, London: […] [William Stansby and William Jaggard] for Samuell Macham, […], →OCLC, 5th decade, pages 95–96:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *gamaną
3. Proto-West Germanic *gaman
4. Old English gamen
5. Middle English game
6. English game
7. From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“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”).
8. Cognate with Yola gaame, gaaume, gaume (“game”), Old Frisian game, gome (“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Dutch gemelijk (“cantankerous, crabbed”), Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Danish gammen (“merriment”), Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk gaman (“joy, fun”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”). Related to gammon, gamble. See: Middle English Nouns 'game', Old English Nouns 'gamen', Danish Nouns 'gammen', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'gaman'.

Verbs referencing "game"

Polish Nouns gem, Dutch Nouns game, Swedish Nouns game, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns gaman, Finnish Nouns keimit.