telegaming
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The playing of games by two or more distant participants, especially using telecommunications, such as telephony, that predate the Internet.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A twelve-year-old in Georgia? A grandmother in Walla Walla? But that's interactive telegaming, and I think it's a wave of the future."
- "Multiplayer telegaming, game playing with other people over telephone lines, overcomes this obstacle."
- "But there is a lighter side to telecomputing — multiple-player telegaming."
- "Telegaming has been around for a long time. For centuries, people have played long distance chess and backgammon games by messenger and, more recently, by mail or phone."