Game

What “Game” means

Noun

1. A playful or competitive activity.
2. A playful or competitive activity.
3. A playful or competitive activity.
4. A playful or competitive activity.
5. A playful or competitive activity.

Adj

1. Willing and able to participate.
2. That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
3. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

Verb

1. To gamble.
2. To play card games, board games, or video games.
3. To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
4. To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

Adj

1. Injured, lame.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *gamaną Proto-West Germanic *gaman Old English gamen Middle English game English game 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”). 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.

Business name ideas with “Game”

Industries where “Game” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Doll, Toy, and Game Manufacturing
• Hobby, Toy, and Game Stores