video-game console

A form of video game console — A dedicated electronic device that is designed to play video games, especially in accompaniment with a television.

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Meanings

nounvideo-game console (plural video-game consoles)

plural video-game consoles

  1. alternativeAlternative form of video game console.

    Subscribers to Amazon’s Prime Video service will be able to watch the games on smartphones, video-game consoles and connected TVs.

    2022 August 24, Gerry Smith, “Amazon will show ‘Thursday Night Football’ in bars”, in Belleville News-Democrat, page 3A
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    The FBI recently arrested four Chinese nationals in New York for allegedly distributing video-game consoles containing Nintendo game software.

    2005 April 22, “The Player’s Page”, in TGIF (The Palm Beach Post), page 19

    Sony, which makes the PlayStation video-game console and has movie and music businesses, showed an electric car concept at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas two years ago, and has been eager to find an auto partner.

    2022 October 17, Yuri Kageyama, “Sony, Honda team for EVs slated to hit the US in 2026”, in Naples Daily News, volume 99th, number 84, page 4B
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APA

video-game console. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/video-game%20console

MLA

“video-game console.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/video-game%20console. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “video-game console,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/video-game%20console.

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