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Game of Life

Game of Life proper noun: an American board game simulating progress through life, with job, marriage, etc.

Proper noun

the Game of Life

  1. An American board game simulating progress through life, with job, marriage, etc.
  2. A cellular automaton devised by mathematician John Horton Conway, consisting of a grid of cells that are either "alive" or "dead" and grow or diminish based on the number of adjacent living cells.

Questions about Game of Life

What does Game of Life mean?
Game of Life means an American board game simulating progress through life, with job, marriage, etc.
What part of speech is Game of Life?
Game of Life is a proper noun.

Words near Game of Life in the dictionary

  1. game mode
  2. game modes
  3. game of chance
  4. game of chicken
  5. game of gotcha
  6. Game of Life
  7. game of skill
  8. game of the goose
  9. game of Troy
  10. game of two halves
  11. game on

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