Noun

A playful or competitive activity.

#A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.

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#(label) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.

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#*:Joshua: Shall we play a game ?

#(label) A particular instance of playing a game; match .

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#*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

#That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.

#The number of points necessary to win a game.

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#(label) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.

#(label) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.

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A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

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Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

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*:I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game ’s afoot!

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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games ,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

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An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

(label) Wild animals hunted for food.

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The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

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(label) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.

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*(Blackwood Magazine)

*:Your murderous game is nearly up.

*(George Saintsbury) (1845-1933)

*:It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.

Noun

(en noun)

A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.

I would like to know your opinions on the new systems.

In my opinion , white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.

Every man is a fool in some man's opinion .

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -

The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

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I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

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Friendship gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.

(obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

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Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion .

* Milton

This gained Agricola much opinion , who enterprises.

(obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

* 1590 , , V. i. 5:

Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion , and / strange without heresy.

The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.

(European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible