Pronunciations (3)
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/ˈmaɪnˌkɹæft/
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- General-American
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/ˈmaɪnˌkɹɐːft/
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- Australia
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/ˈmaɪnˌkɹɑːft/
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- Received-Pronunciation
Proper noun
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.
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- a glossary of terms used in Minecraft
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Sam has beaten the Ender Dragon twice, killed the wither thrice, obtained netherite armor and built an obsidian fort in Minecraft.
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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.
Verb
To play the video game Minecraft.
Usage- Intransitive
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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!