nongamer

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noun

Somebody who is not a gamer; a person who does not play video games.

OriginEnglish gamer ← Middle English gamer ← Old English gamen →
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Meanings

nounnongamer (plural nongamers)

plural nongamers

  1. Somebody who is not a gamer; a person who does not play video games.

    Tetris is almost uniformly popular and represents the kind of brain-flexing task that even the nongamers are likely to feel comfortable with.

    2008, Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities, page 204

Origin

  1. Englishnon-
  2. Proto-Germanic*gamaną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*gaman
  4. Old Englishgamen
  5. Middle Englishgame
  6. Middle Englishgamer
  7. Englishgamer
  8. Englishnongamer

From non- + gamer.

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Cite this entry
APA

nongamer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nongamer

MLA

“nongamer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nongamer. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nongamer,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nongamer.

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