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open worlds

open worlds is the plural of open world.

Meaning of open world

Noun

open world (plural open worlds)

  1. (also, attributive) A gameworld that the player may traverse freely, rather than being restricted to certain predefined areas and quests.
    • Role-play games […] they use a closed visual world of walls or grids or open worlds across computer systems2004, Paul Grover, “Computer Games in Your Hands”, in Visual Texts (The Heinemann English Project), Port Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.: Heinemann Harcourt Education, →ISBN, page 15

Questions about open worlds

What is open worlds the plural of?
Open worlds is the plural of open world.

Words near open worlds in the dictionary

  1. open waters
  2. open weights
  3. open wheel
  4. open wide
  5. open world
  6. open worlds
  7. open wound
  8. open wounds
  9. open'd
  10. open, sesame
  11. open-air

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