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play style

play style is the alternative form of playstyle.

Meaning of playstyle

Noun

playstyle (plural playstyles)

  1. The manner in which somebody plays a game, or in which a game must be played.
    • Yet there are substantial numbers of girls who are interested in male-type activities and are not put off by male playstyles.1998, The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together, page 72

Forms of play style

pluralplay styles

Questions about play style

What is play style the alternative form of?
Play style is the alternative form of playstyle.

Words near play style in the dictionary

  1. play streets
  2. play structure
  3. play structures
  4. play stupid
  5. play stupid games, win stupid prizes
  6. play style
  7. play the advantage
  8. play the angles
  9. play the ball
  10. play the ball and not the man
  11. play the ball not the man

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Adapted from Wiktionary: play style (page history and authors); playstyle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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