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battles royale

battles royale is the plural of battle royale.

Meaning of battle royale

Noun

battle royale (plural battles royale or battle royales)

  1. A video game genre centered around survival, exploration and scavenging, with last-man-standing gameplay.
    • Ian Bogost, a game designer, media professor and author of Play Anything, agrees: “There is no question in my mind that the eat-or-be-eaten, winner-take-all mentality of contemporary life is of a piece with the battle-royale genre,” he says.2018 July 16, Steven Poole, quoting Ian Bogost, “From Fortnite to Love Island: how the ‘fight to the death’ defines our times”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023

Questions about battles royale

What is battles royale the plural of?
Battles royale is the plural of battle royale.

Words near battles royale in the dictionary

  1. battles of the bands
  2. battles of the bulge
  3. battles of the sexes
  4. battles out
  5. battles royal
  6. battles royale
  7. Battlesbridge
  8. battleship
  9. battleship curve
  10. battleship curves
  11. battleship gray

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