name
Minecraft
MYN-krahft
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A hugely popular sandbox video game, first released in 2011, in which players build and explore a blocky 3D world.
"My kids spend hours building castles in Minecraft."
verb
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To play the video game Minecraft.
"We're going to minecraft after homework."
How to Use Minecraft
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe block-building survival video game, or, informally, the act of playing it.
Word Forms
Minecrafted past tense, minecraft plural, minecrafts plural, Minecrafts singular
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Etymology
Coined from "mine" (digging) plus "craft" (building), reflecting the game's core loop of mining materials and crafting them into structures.