minecraft
/ˈmaɪnˌkɹæft/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
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Meaning
name
A sandbox video game, released in 2011, in which players explore a three-dimensional world made of blocks and can craft items, build structures, fight mobs to get experience points, enchant items and defeat bosses to earn rewards.
noun
A warship which lays naval mines.
Example Sentences
- "Sam has beaten the Ender Dragon twice, killed the wither thrice, obtained netherite armor and built an obsidian fort in Minecraft."
- "Chlorine blue, bordered in forest green and looking out onto a Grecian gazebo, the pool was composed of hundreds of ceramic kitchen tiles, like a Minecraft version of C.Z. Guest’s once-upon-a-time world."
- "If you know a tween, chances are you have bought them something sparkly in the past couple of years – and not only if they are a girl. From Next’s boys’ sequinned T-shirt that flips between Minecraft designs to Paperchase’s rainbow-encrusted notebook[…], these addictively tactile surfaces are everywhere."
- "London’s mayoralty insists that its new homes must look like old homes – just new, and more of them. So the city has ended up with endless variations of a Georgian terrace that looks like it’s been rendered in Minecraft."
- "In the fullness of time, we can confirm that consumers do generally prefer metaverse platforms named after verbs, or at least strongly imply them: Minecrafting, building blocks and forts in Roblox and Fortnite, VRChat-ing, and so on."
- "First we mine, then we craft. Let’s Minecraft!"
Etymology
Etymology tree English mine Proto-Germanic *krafjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *kraftuz Proto-West Germanic *kraftu Old English cræft Old English -cræft Middle English -craft English -craft English Minecraft From mine + -craft; coined by Paul Eres in May 2009, a member of the TIGSource Forums.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmaɪnˌkɹæft/
- British English: /ˈmaɪnˌkɹɑːft/
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a glossary of terms used in Minecraft