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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A controversy that started in 2014, and happened primarily online, around issues of sexism and progressivism in video game culture and harassment of women in the video game industry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Alternative letter-case form of Gamergate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
A worker insect that can become capable of reproducing when the queen has died.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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History
From gamer + -gate.
From gam- + ergate, from Ancient Greek γάμος (gámos, “union, marriage”) + Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergátēs, “workman”).
