2. Adjective. (comparative of game) ¹
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Definition of Gamer
1. a player who relishes competition [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gamer
Literary usage of Gamer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"(AD 1614) ; Eng. gamer, ed. Arber, iv. 338. [As the English gamer has modernised
spelling, we cannot tell what was the spelling of the original here. ..."
2. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1873)
"... was stored (And now himself is reaped, and set Safe in the gamer of the Lord) ?
God knows how fair a face can show Flush'd in the golden evening's glow. ..."
3. Recensio synoptica annotationis sacrae, being a critical digest and by Samuel Thomas Bloomfield (1828)
"So Pise., gamer, Beza, Zeg., Vorst., Gom., Est., Calvin, Bens., &c.
The phrase /ce7<r9a» ev may, indeed, be (according to Classical use) more agreeable to ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"(AD 1614) ; Eng. gamer, ed. Arber, iv. 338. [As the English gamer has modernised
spelling, we cannot tell what was the spelling of the original here. ..."
5. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1873)
"... was stored (And now himself is reaped, and set Safe in the gamer of the Lord) ?
God knows how fair a face can show Flush'd in the golden evening's glow. ..."
6. Recensio synoptica annotationis sacrae, being a critical digest and by Samuel Thomas Bloomfield (1828)
"So Pise., gamer, Beza, Zeg., Vorst., Gom., Est., Calvin, Bens., &c.
The phrase /ce7<r9a» ev may, indeed, be (according to Classical use) more agreeable to ..."
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