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multi-user dungeon

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English

Syllables
mul-ti--user -dun-geon
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A text-based online game in which players enter instructions on a command line to jointly engage in role-playing.

noun

An early graphical massively multiplayer online game.

Dated

Etymology

From the title of the genre-defining 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon, which was itself named to suggest a "multi-user" game that was otherwise similar to Dungeon, an unauthorized DEC-10 port of Zork. The title was not intended to imply a dungeon setting or any association with Dungeons & Dragons.

Usage

Inflected Forms

multi-user dungeons (plural)

Synonyms

MUD

Questions

What does multi-user dungeon mean?
A text-based online game in which players enter instructions on a command line to jointly engage in role-playing.
Where does multi-user dungeon come from?
From the title of the genre-defining 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon, which was itself named to suggest a "multi-user" game that was otherwise similar to Dungeon, an unauthorized DEC-10 port of Zork. The title was not intended to imply a dungeon setting or any association with Dungeons & Dragons.

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