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Famicom

Famicom noun: a Family Computer (chiefly those available within Japan).

Noun

Famicom (plural Famicoms)

  1. A Family Computer (chiefly those available within Japan).
    • School students as well as middle-aged salaried workers queued up to buy one of these Famicoms.1988, Shoji Shiba, Yuusuke Moryiama, Shigeki Yamasaki, Masanobu Abe, S. Nakae, M. Hasimoto, K. Tuno, Y. Fukuda, M. Taki, ““Which has the Most Powerful Influence on Children: Computer Literacy, School...
    • After a trip to Tokyo at the end of 1983, a business partner of the Stampers had sent them a Nintendo Famicom […]2022, Alyse Knorr, GoldenEye 007

Forms of Famicom

pluralFamicoms

Origin of Famicom

Borrowed from Japanese ファミコン (famikon), a syllabic abbreviation of ファミリーコンピューター (famirīkonpyūtā), a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from family + computer.

Words formed from Famicom

Questions about Famicom

What does Famicom mean?
Famicom means a Family Computer (chiefly those available within Japan).
What part of speech is Famicom?
Famicom is a noun.
What is the plural of Famicom?
The plural of Famicom is Famicoms.

Words near Famicom in the dictionary

  1. famewhore
  2. famewhores
  3. fameworthy
  4. Famiclone
  5. Famiclones
  6. Famicom
  7. Famicoms
  8. famigerate
  9. famigerated
  10. famigerates
  11. famigerating

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