Definition of game

"game" in the noun sense

1. game

a contest with rules to determine a winner

"you need four people to play this game"

2. game

a single play of a sport or other contest

"the game lasted two hours"

3. game

an amusement or pastime

"they played word games"

"he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time"

"his life was all fun and games"

4. game

animal hunted for food or sport

5. game

tennis) a division of play during which one player serves

6. game

games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win

"the game is 6 all"

"he is serving for the game"

7. game

the flesh of wild animals that is used for food

8. plot, secret plan, game

a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal

"they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"

"I saw through his little game from the start"

9. game

the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game

"the child received several games for his birthday"

10. game, biz

your occupation or line of work

"he's in the plumbing game"

"she's in show biz"

11. game

frivolous or trifling behavior

"for actors, memorizing lines is no game"

"for him, life is all fun and games"

"game" in the verb sense

1. bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt

place a bet on

"Which horse are you backing?"

"I'm betting on the new horse"

"game" in the adjective sense

1. crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, game

disabled in the feet or legs

"a crippled soldier"

"a game leg"

2. game, gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky

willing to face danger

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Quotations for game

The game is up. [ William Shakespeare ]

Perseverance kills the game. [ Gorloeus ]

Short shooting loses the game. [ Proverb ]

A game of cards (red and black). [ See Nuttall ]

The game is not worth the candle. [ French Proverb ]

A snug and friendly game at cards. [ Cowper ]

Conversation is a game of circles. [ Emerson ]

It is a silly game where nobody wins. [ Proverb ]

The game's isn't over until it's over. [ Yogi Berra ]

At the game's end we shall see who gains. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love is a game at which one always cheats. [ Balzac ]

A subject's faults a subject may proclaim,
A monarch's errors are forbidden game. [ William Cowper ]

Ninety percent of this game is half mental. [ Yogi Berra ]

Have I not here the best cards for the game,
To win this easy match? [ William Shakespeare ]

At the end of the game, you'll see who's the winner. [ Proverb ]

There is no game of chance more hazardous than marriage. [ J. David ]

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game. [ Lamb ]

Game is cheaper in the market than in the fields and woods. [ Proverb ]

When sharpers prey upon one another, there is no game abroad. [ Proverb ]

War is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings should not play at. [ William Cowper ]

Coquettes are like hunters who are fond of hunting, but do not eat the game.

Women like balls and assemblies, as a hunter likes a place where game abounds. [ Latena ]

Commerce is a game of skill, which every one cannot play, which few men can play well. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Life was never a May-game for men; not play at all, but hard work, that makes the sinews sore and the heart sore. [ Carlyle ]

You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left. [ Yogi Berra ]

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude. [ Colton ]

Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it. [ George Eliot ]

It is a curious thing about the game of marriage - a game, by the way, that is going out of fashion - the wives hold all the honors and invariably lose the odd trick. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

The old pool shooter has won many a game in his life. But now it was time to hang up the cue. When he did all the other cues came crashing to the floor. Sorry, he said with a smile. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend upon such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, yet is he not certain to win the game. [ George Herbert ]

Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]

game in Scrabble®

The word game is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters game:

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game in Words With Friends™

The word game is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters game:

MAGE
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Words within the letters of game

2 letter words in game (5 words)

3 letter words in game (3 words)

4 letter words in game (Anagrams) (2 words)

game + 1 blank (8 words)

Words containing the sequence game

Word Growth involving game

Shorter words in game

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Longer words containing game

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