MINECRAFT Definition & Meaning

minecraft

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noun

a type of warship for sweeping mines at sea.

Trademark.

Minecraft. a brand name for a sandbox video game with construction, crafting, exploration, and combat mechanics, available on many game platforms.

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Origin of minecraft¹

1925–30; minecraft fordef 1, mine ² (in the sense “an underwater explosive”) + craft ( def ); minecraft fordef 2, mine ²( def ) (in the sense “to dig, extract ore”) + craft ( def ); coined in 2009 by Markus Persson , Swedish video game programmer and designer of the game.

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The studio is counting on the family-friendly and video game-inspired “A Minecraft Movie,” which comes out in theaters this weekend, to turn its fortunes around.

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One of Minecraft‘s real-life gamer heroes, a YouTuber named Technoblade, spent months figuring out how to grow 500 million pixelated potatoes before dying of cancer at age 23. He and Hess share a silly, marvelous and memorable commitment to spuds and, as a salute, Technoblade’s avatar, a pig in a bejeweled crown, has a cameo in the movie. “A legend,” Black beams.

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Millions of people are playing the video game Minecraft right now, as in right now while you’re reading this sentence.

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In Minecraft’s pixelated Overworld, everything is shaped like a box, from the trees to the bees, and players invent their own adventures — there’s no princess imprisoned in a castle.

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Hence Hollywood hurling a brick of cash at making “A Minecraft Movie.”

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