gamer

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪmɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪmə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪmə(ɹ)

From Middle English gamer, attested since before 1450 as a common noun^[1] and possibly since 1248 in the name of one Johannes le Gamer.^[2] Equivalent to game (noun) +‎ -er (occupational suffix).

gamer (plural gamers)

1. A person who plays any kind of game.

   Synonym: gameplayer

   • 1422, Code of Laws of Walsall:

     […] any dice-player, carder, tennis player, or other unlawful gamer.

   • 2002, Gary Alan Fine, Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds, page 93:

     These dice are the gamers' weapons […]

   1. A person whose hobby is video games.

      Synonym: videogamer

      Hypernym: gameplayer

      • 2019, The Scottish Parliament, Motion S5M-15504 [1]

        That the Parliament congratulates the online gamer, Harry Brewis, who is known by the handle HBomberGuy, […]

2. A person who games the system.

   Hypernyms: cheat, cheater, self-server

   Near-synonym: gamesman

   • 2016, Eric Lovald, Hugely Confused:

     […] the real "takers" in this country are commercial gamers of the system who are only in it to swipe a fast buck from the common trust.

3. (obsolete) A gambler.

   Synonym: punter

   Hyponym: piker

   • 1845 The Head Quarters, Volume III, Number 122 (November 19, 1845)

     The gamer is farther from restoration even than the drunkard, because what he does he does in the light of sobriety and reason.

• → Bulgarian: геймър (gejmǎr)
• → Danish: gamer
• → Dutch: gamer
• → French: gamer
• → Georgian: გეიმერი (geimeri)
• → German: Gamer
• → Gulf Arabic: قيمر (gēmar), گيمر (gēmar)
• → Japanese: ゲーマー (gēmā)
• → Korean: 게이머 (geimeo)
• → Macedonian: ге́јмер (géjmer)
• → Persian: گیمر (geymer)
• → Portuguese: gamer, guêimer
• → Russian: ге́ймер (géjmer)
• → Spanish: gamer
• → Swedish: gamer
• → Ukrainian: ге́ймер (héjmer), ґе́ймер (géjmer)

From game (adjective) +‎ -er (comparative suffix).

gamer

1. comparative form of game: more game

• Gamer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “gamer”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “gamer”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• Mager, Marge, e-gram, grame, magre, marge, regma

Borrowed from English gamer.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡ̊ɛjmʌ]

gamer c (singular definite gameren, plural indefinite gamere)

1. gamer

• “gamer” in Den Danske Ordbog

• magre

Borrowed from English gamer. Equivalent to gamen +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeː.mər/

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• Hyphenation: ga‧mer

gamer m (plural gamers)

1. a gamer, someone who plays video games

Borrowed from English gamer.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛ.mœʁ/ ~ /ɡe.mœʁ/
• (Canada, Missouri, New England, Louisiana) IPA^(key): /ɡeɪmɚ/

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• Homophone: gamers

gamer m (plural gamers)

1. a person whose hobby is video games
2. a high-end laptop designed to play video games

gamer (plural gamer-gamer)

1. (Kalimantan) Calophyllum soulattri, a species of bintangor

   Synonyms: bintangur, kapur naga, sulatri

• IPA^(key): /ɡamər/
• Rhymes: -amər, -ər

gamer (Jawi spelling ݢامر)

1. hesitant

• janggal (“awkward”)
• malu (“shame”)
• teragak-agak (“hesitate”)

• “gamer” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From game +‎ -ere (suffix forming agent nouns).

gamer (plural gamers)

1. gamer; gamester (person who plays games)

• English: gamer

• “gāmer, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• guêimer (Brazil, rare)

Unadapted borrowing from English gamer.

gamer m or f by sense (plural gamers)

1. gamer (a person who plays video games)

   Synonym: videojogador

gamer (invariable)

1. (relational) gaming

Borrowed from English gamer

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeimeɾ/ [ˈɡei̯.meɾ]
• Rhymes: -eimeɾ
• Syllabification: ga‧mer

gamer m or f by sense (plural gamers)

1. gamer