What is the name meaning of GAMES. Phrases containing GAMES
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a piece of ground used for playing games, from Middle English pleye ‘play’ + sted(e) ‘place’, hence ‘place for play or sport’. In some cases it may be a habitational name from Chapel Plaster in Box, Wiltshire. Compare Plaster 2.
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Spanish
Spanish : variant of Gámez (see Gamez).English : variant of Game.
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Indian, Tamil
Lord Gamesha
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superl.
In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.
n.
In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.
n.
A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.
a.
Pertaining to, or in honor of, Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome.
v. t.
In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king.
v. t.
A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
n.
A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.
n. pl.
Festival games celebrated once in three years.
n.
In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.
n.
A counter used in card playing and other games.
n.
Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
n.
The games of backgammon and of draughts.
n.
A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.
n.
One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
n.
A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.
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That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.
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A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games.
n.
A judge or umpire in games or combats.
n.
The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.
a.
Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.