Minecraft

From mine +‎ craft; coined by Paul Eres in May 2009, a member of the TIGSource Forums.^[1][2]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnˌkɹæft/

  Rhymes: -æft

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnˌkɹɐːft/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnˌkɹɑːft/

  Rhymes: -ɑːft

• Hyphenation: Mine‧craft

Minecraft

1. (video games) A sandbox video game, released in 2011, in which players explore a three-dimensional world made of blocks and can craft items, build structures, fight mobs to get experience points, enchant items and defeat bosses to earn rewards.

   Synonym: MC

   Sam has beaten the Ender Dragon twice, killed the wither thrice, obtained netherite armor and built an obsidian fort in Minecraft.

   • 2016 September 13, Vanessa Friedman, “New York Fashion Week Comes to Life With Thom Browne and Proenza Schouler”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     Chlorine blue, bordered in forest green and looking out onto a Grecian gazebo, the pool was composed of hundreds of ceramic kitchen tiles, like a Minecraft version of C.Z. Guest’s once-upon-a-time world.

   • 2019 February 25, Dale Berning Sawa, “Why the world has gone wild for reversible sequins”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:

     If you know a tween, chances are you have bought them something sparkly in the past couple of years – and not only if they are a girl. From Next’s boys’ sequinned T-shirt that flips between Minecraft designs to Paperchase’s rainbow-encrusted notebook […], these addictively tactile surfaces are everywhere.

   • 2022 August 24, India Block, “Like a beige, banal biscuit tin: why London’s new buildings all look the same”, in The Guardian‎^[5]:

     London’s mayoralty insists that its new homes must look like old homes – just new, and more of them. So the city has ended up with endless variations of a Georgian terrace that looks like it’s been rendered in Minecraft.

• Appendix:Minecraft, a glossary of terms used in Minecraft

Minecraft (third-person singular simple present Minecrafts, present participle Minecrafting, simple past and past participle Minecrafted)

1. (intransitive) To play the video game Minecraft.

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmajn̩kraft]

Minecraft m inan

1. Minecraft (video game)

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑjnkrɛft/

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Minecraft n

1. Minecraft (video game)

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft

• IPA^(key): /majn.kʁaft/

Minecraft m

1. (video games) Minecraft

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnkɹɑːft/, /-ɛːft/, /-aːft/, /ˈmaɪnkʁ-/

Minecraft n (proper noun, strong, genitive Minecrafts)

1. (video games) Minecraft

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

Minecraft m

1. (video games) Minecraft

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaj.ŋkraft/
• Rhymes: -ajŋkraft
• Syllabification: Mine‧craft

Minecraft m inan (related adjective minecraftowy)

1. Minecraft

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

Minecraft m

1. (video games) Minecraft

   Synonym: Mine

• Maicra, Maincra (humorous)

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmainkɾaft/ [ˈmãĩŋ.kɾaft̪]
• Rhymes: -ainkɾaft

Minecraft m

1. (video games) Minecraft

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maːj˧˧ kəː˨˩ ɹaːp̚˧˦] ~ [maːj˧˧ kəː˨˩ zaːp̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maːj˧˧ kəː˦˩ ɹaːp̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [maːj˧˧ kəː˨˩ ɹaːp̚˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: mai cờ Ráp

Minecraft

1. (video games) Minecraft
   • 2023 February 5, Khương Nha, VnExpress‎^[6]:

     Ngoài việc dựng các công trình trong nước, nhóm dự định làm thêm các điểm đến nổi tiếng quốc tế để thu hút sự chú ý của cộng đồng Minecraft nước ngoài.

     In addition to building domestic structures, the group plans to create more popular international destinations to attract the attention of the foreign Minecraft community.