battle royal
- noun
- Jargon
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modo de juego de batalla real
- The latest battle royal game has taken the gaming community by storm.
Examples
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She prefers strategy games to chaotic battle royal matches that depend mostly on luck.
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Have you tried the new battle royal mode in Fortnite?
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Many streamers built audiences by mastering the popular battle royal game mode.
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The tournament featured twenty teams competing in a tense battle royal on the final map.
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In the intense battle royal, only two players remained after hours of fierce competition.
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I love watching streams of the latest battle royal games where players fight to be the last one standing.
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During the battle royal, teams quickly allied and then backstabbed each other to gain the upper hand.
Antonyms
How Team-Based
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'battle' (a fight) and 'royal' (relating to a king) allow a B1 learner to infer that the phrase denotes some kind of fight, but they will not reliably predict the precise gaming sense of a large free‑for‑all or last‑player‑standing competition. The meaning is a domain‑specific, metaphorical extension of 'battle' where 'royal' does not transparently signal elimination-style gameplay, so partial inference is possible but full comprehension requires prior exposure.
Etymology
Battle royal in video games comes from a well-known book and film called 'Battle Royale', where many people fight until only one person is left. Game makers copied that clear image, so the term now means a game where many players compete until 'the last one left'.