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multiplayer
English
Alternative forms
- multi-player (rare)
Etymology
From multi- +? player.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?lti?ple???(?)/, [?m??ti?ple???(?)]
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?lti?ple???/, [?m??ti?ple???]
Adjective
multiplayer (not comparable)
- (games) Requiring or allowing multiple human players to play simultaneously.
Noun
multiplayer (uncountable)
- (games) The feature of a video game where multiple human players play simultaneously.
- I just heard that the game will have multiplayer when it comes out!
Antonyms
- singleplayer
- solitaire
Translations
multiplayer From the web:
- what multiplayer games are cross platform
- what multiplayer game should i play
- what multiplayer packs do i need
- what multiplayer games are on the oculus quest 2
- what multiplayer games to play
- what multiplayer games are on the switch
- what multiplayer modes are in cold war
- what multiplayer games are coming out in 2021
matchmaking
English
Alternative forms
- match-making
Etymology
match +? making
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?mæt??me?k??/
Noun
matchmaking (countable and uncountable, plural matchmakings)
- An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
- 1851: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
- The marriage was highly approved of by Mrs. Shelby, who, with a little womanly complacency in match-making, felt pleased to unite her handsome favorite with one of her own class who seemed in every way suited to her;
- 2001: The Gilmore Girls (TV, episode 1.18)
- Patty, your timing is excellent. There's Claude over there. Want me to do some matchmaking?
- 1815: Jane Austen, Emma
- I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match-making.
- 1851: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
- (business) A service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners.
- 1971: Eunice L. Watson and Arthur Cope Emlem, Matchmaking in Neighborhood Day Care: A Descriptive Study of the Day Care Neighbor Service [1]
- ... there was evidence that they did provide information for day care matchmaking to the potential users and givers of care.
- 1971: Eunice L. Watson and Arthur Cope Emlem, Matchmaking in Neighborhood Day Care: A Descriptive Study of the Day Care Neighbor Service [1]
- (video games) The act or process of locating suitable players to take part in a multiplayer game session.
- The manufacture of matches for kindling or burning.
Related terms
- matchmake
- matchmaker
Translations
Verb
matchmaking
- present participle of matchmake
matchmaking From the web:
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- what matchmaking region is australia in fortnite
- what matchmaking region has the most bots
- what matchmaking region am i in
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