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gameland en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From game + land.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) An expanse or area on which game can be hunted, or is plentiful.
    • state gamelands
  2. (rare, slang, uncountable) The world or sphere of video games.
    • By setting guidelines, you can send your kids off to gameland with some moral and emotional equipment, which can help them put their activities into perspective — this is a game, not life. 2007, Kathy Ivens, Home Networking for Dummies:
    • To Keith and everyone at the Coriolis Group who took part in this project, and to everyone out there in gameland, I extend my heartfelt appreciation... 1995, Lary L. Myers, Keith Weiskamp, Amazing 3-D games adventure set:
    • The PlayStation 2 still sells (and likely will for years, given its $130 price tag), but the buzz in gameland has moved on to “next-generation” machines like Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s own more than $500 PlayStation 3, which is packed with so much silicon that it makes its predecessor look like an alarm clock. 2007 March 16, Seth Schiesel, “A Game With New Tricks for an Old System”, in New York Times:

Forms

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Relateds

game warden · woodland · gamekeeper · master of game