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gamester Definition

game·ster (gām′stər)

noun

a gambler

Etymology: game + -ster

gamester Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • rage: The game of games according to some, backgammon turns perfectly well behaved men into raging gamesters.
  • find: I found a dozen gamesters round the table, but what was my surprise to recognize in the holder of the bank Count Medini.

Adjective modifier

  • young: A couple of days afterward Morosini invited Sara, Goudar, two young gamesters, and Medini, to dinner.
  • good: He never played, but he loved a good gamester and despised all dupes.
gamester Quotes

Be just, my lovely swain, and do not take Freedoms you'll not to me allow; Or give Amynta so much freedom back That she may rove as well as you. Let us then love upon the honest square, Since interest neither have designed. For the sly gamester, who ne'er plays me fair, Must trick for trick expect to find.

—Behan, Brendan Francis

Browse dictionary entries near gamester

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  7. ‹ gamekeeper
  8. ‹ gamecock
  9. ‹ game theory
  10. ‹ game show
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