gameland
gameland noun: an expanse or area on which game can be hunted, or is plentiful.
Noun
gameland (countable and uncountable, plural gamelands)
- An expanse or area on which game can be hunted, or is plentiful.
- state gamelands
- The world or sphere of video games.
- 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...2007 March 16, Seth Schiesel, “A Game With New Tricks for an Old System”, in New York Times
Forms of gameland
| plural | gamelands |
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Origin of gameland
From game + land.
Questions about gameland
- What does gameland mean?
- Gameland means an expanse or area on which game can be hunted, or is plentiful.
- What part of speech is gameland?
- Gameland is a noun.
- What is the plural of gameland?
- The plural of gameland is gamelands.
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