A gamer is a person seen through one activity: playing. Someone hands them a set of rules and a way to win, and they lean in. The word has stayed on that one picture for centuries while the board under it kept changing — dice, cards, a pitch, a screen, and finally the rules of ordinary life treated as if they were a game to be won.
From the word’s history
From Middle English gamer, attested as a common noun before 1450; game (noun) + -er, the suffix that names the person who does something. The word has always meant simply 'one who plays games'.
這個字是 game（遊戲）加上 -er（做這件事的人）組成的，中古英文裡就有 gamer，最晚在一四五〇年以前已被當成普通名詞使用，當時指的是玩各種遊戲、賭局的人。也就是說，「玩遊戲的人」這個字面意思，從一開始就是它的全部；後來的各種用法，都是底下那張桌子換了而已。
Wiktionary entry for 'gamer' (etymology supplied in the evidence packet: Middle English gamer, game + -er, attested before 1450)
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gamernoun詞源 1/ˈɡeɪ̯mə/
- 1
A person who plays any kind of game.
- […] any dice-player, carder, tennis player, or other unlawful gamer.
- These dice are the gamers' weapons […]
- 2
A person who plays any kind of game.
- That the Parliament congratulates the online gamer, Harry Brewis, who is known by the handle HBomberGuy, […]
- A country that's enriched the world with sushi, karaoke and manga, Japan has many devotees, especially among gamers and geeks.
- 3
A person who games the system.
- Near-synonym: gamesman
- […] the real "takers" in this country are commercial gamers of the system who are only in it to swipe a fast buck from the common trust.
- 4
obsoleteA gambler.
- The gamer is farther from restoration even than the drunkard, because what he does he does in the light of sobriety and reason.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。