amusement arcade
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2.6
- noun
- /əˈmjuːzmənt ɑːrˈkeɪd/
- UK
:
sala de juegos
- The amusement arcade was filled with flashing lights and the sounds of laughter.
As a phone, you are crap as an amusement arcade, you're wonderful.
- As a phone, you are crap as an amusement arcade, you're wonderful.
Examples
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On weekends, we often visit the amusement arcade to enjoy the latest video games.
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Walker, report to me in the amusement arcade.
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Lance, Kaye, go along the cliff, find the horses and tie them up at the top of the high street, then meet us at the amusement arcade.
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The kids had a fantastic time playing games at the amusement arcade near the beach.
Synonyms
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7.0
A place with game machines you play by putting in coins for cheap fun
Antonyms
How Entertaining
Surface Forms
Morphology
amusement + arcade
The compound is directly compositional: 'amusement' means entertainment and 'arcade' denotes a public place or covered passage, so 'amusement arcade' straightforwardly denotes a place for entertainment (specifically game machines). This noun+noun composition is common cross-linguistically and follows basic English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun amusement arcade comes from joining amusement (meaning 'fun') and arcade (an old word for a covered row of shops or stalls where people walked). These covered places often held machines and games that took coins, so the name came to mean 'a place for playing games and having fun'.