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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.
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noun
Fun, frolic, sport.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
A game, joke, trick.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dialectal, uncountable
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verb
To play, frolic; amuse oneself, have a good time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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verb
To play practical jokes; trick, hoax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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History
Uncertain. Perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English *gammeten, *gametten (“to frolic, entertain, jest”), from Old English *gamnettan (“to entertain, amuse, play”), from Old English gamen (“fun, amusement”) + -ettan (verbal suffix).
