gaming house
- noun
- Jargon
:
casa de entrenamiento
- Living in a gaming house allowed the players to focus on their training and strategy.
Examples
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The team moved into a new gaming house to better prepare for the championship.
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They decorated their gaming house with posters of their favorite esports heroes.
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I'll promise him that I will never set foot in a gaming house again.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
A house or building where people live, not a business building
How Professional
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase can be compositionally parsed as "a house where gaming occurs," so a learner who knows 'gaming' and 'house' can roughly infer it's a place associated with gaming. However, the precise esports sense — a team residence where players live and train — is specialized jargon and the constituents' alternative senses (e.g., gaming = gambling, house = operator) create ambiguity, making the meaning only partially predictable.
Etymology
Gaming house in competitive video games comes from teams renting a house where players live and do gaming together. Because players 'game' in the same 'house', the phrase now means 'a place to live and train for competitive gaming'.