"PlayStation" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: PlayStations [plural]
Etymology: play + station, coined by Japanese-American multinational software company Sony Interactive Entertainment Etymology templates: {{compound|en|play|station}} play + station, {{coin|en|Q18594|nobycat=1|nocap=1}} coined by Japanese-American multinational software company Sony Interactive Entertainment Head templates: {{en-noun}} PlayStation (plural PlayStations)
  1. (video games, trademark) A video game console of the "PlayStation" brand. Categories (topical): Video games, Video games Translations (series of video game consoles): سوني (sōni) [Gulf-Arabic] (Arabic), بليستيشن [Gulf-Arabic] (Arabic), PlayStation [masculine] (Czech), PlayStation [common-gender] (Dutch), PlayStation (Finnish), pleikkari [colloquial] (Finnish), pleikka [colloquial] (Finnish), PlayStation [feminine] (French), PlayStation [feminine] (German), प्लेस्टेशन (plesṭeśan) (Hindi), PlayStation (Italian), プレイステーション (Japanese), 플레이스테이션 (peulleiseuteisyeon) (Korean), प्लेस्टेशन (plesṭeśan) (Marathi), PlayStation [masculine] (Polish), PlayStation [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), PlayStation [neuter] (Romanian), плэйстэ́йшн (plɛjstɛ́jšn) [feminine, indeclinable, masculine, usually] (Russian), playstation (Spanish), PlayStation (Turkish), پلے اسٹیشن (ple isṭeśan) (Urdu)
    Sense id: en-PlayStation-en-noun-TChw-F~q Disambiguation of Video games: 48 9 43 Categories (other): English trademarks Topics: video-games Disambiguation of 'series of video game consoles': 92 8
  2. (video games, trademark) The original PlayStation. Categories (topical): Video games Synonyms: PS
    Sense id: en-PlayStation-en-noun-ONqYhM7H Categories (other): English trademarks Topics: video-games Derived forms: CensorStation, GayStation, PlayStationer, PS, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, PSN, PSP, PSVR, PSX

Verb

Forms: PlayStations [present, singular, third-person], PlayStationing [participle, present], PlayStationed [participle, past], PlayStationed [past]
Etymology: play + station, coined by Japanese-American multinational software company Sony Interactive Entertainment Etymology templates: {{compound|en|play|station}} play + station, {{coin|en|Q18594|nobycat=1|nocap=1}} coined by Japanese-American multinational software company Sony Interactive Entertainment Head templates: {{en-verb}} PlayStation (third-person singular simple present PlayStations, present participle PlayStationing, simple past and past participle PlayStationed)
  1. (rare) To play on the PlayStation video game console. Tags: rare Categories (topical): Video games Translations (play on the PlayStation video game console): playstationen (Dutch)
    Sense id: en-PlayStation-en-verb-mO4LQ9K2 Disambiguation of Video games: 48 9 43 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 17 46

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      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(video games, trademark) The original PlayStation."
      ],
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        "video-games"
      ]
    }
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      "code": "afb",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "sōni",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "tags": [
        "Gulf-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "سوني"
    },
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      "code": "afb",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "بليستيشن"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "PlayStation"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "PlayStation"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "word": "PlayStation"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "pleikkari"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "pleikka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "PlayStation"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "PlayStation"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "plesṭeśan",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "word": "प्लेस्टेशन"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "word": "PlayStation"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "word": "プレイステーション"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "peulleiseuteisyeon",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "word": "플레이스테이션"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "plesṭeśan",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "word": "प्लेस्टेशन"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "PlayStation"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "PlayStation"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "PlayStation"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "plɛjstɛ́jšn",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indeclinable",
        "masculine",
        "usually"
      ],
      "word": "плэйстэ́йшн"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "word": "playstation"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "word": "PlayStation"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "ple isṭeśan",
      "sense": "series of video game consoles",
      "word": "پلے اسٹیشن"
    }
  ],
  "word": "PlayStation"
}

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      "categories": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Coexistence: Twenty-Five Years, [London?]: Blueprint, page 119",
          "text": "Mark Bond, designer “25 years ago I was bouncing around on my Space-hopper, watching Thunderbirds and playing Kerplunk. 25 years later, I have just bought a Sacco bean-bag from Coexistence to sit on whilst Playstationing.[…]”",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2000 May 15, Cox News Service, “PlayStation games can run on PC”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 123, number 232, Dayton, Oh.: Cox Ohio Publishing, →ISSN, page 2E",
          "text": "Connectix does not claim to emulate all Sony games and even the ones it does accommodate won’t necessarily run smoothly or accurately, but with a fair-sized library of perfectly compatible games, CVGS does “broaden consumer choice,” as it purports to intend, and allows for PlayStationing at work, during a long commute via one’s laptop, or at home when the TV isn’t available.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Tim Moore, Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist, London: Abacus, page 296",
          "text": "A boat was moored up at one: the fairy-lit waterline cabins looked impossibly cosy, the pigtailed daughter PlayStationing on the bridge painfully evocative.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 May, Chris Stead, “Mat Hoffman”, in Official NZ PlayStation Magazine, number 44, Auckland: ACP Publishing, →OCLC, page 82",
          "text": "Do you fit much PlayStationing into your hectic schedule?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Nicemongoose, quotee, edited by Tim Worstall, 2005: Blogged; Dispatches from the Blogosphere, London: Friday Books, page 52",
          "text": "He’ll play outside in the fresh air when he should be inside playstationing and getting asthma.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 June/July, Vivian Host, “broken RULES”, in XLR8R, number 88, San Francisco, Calif.: Amalgam Media, Inc., →ISSN, page 50, column 1",
          "text": "“I moved in to ‘guard’ the place from vagabonds and dossers,” says [Orin] Walters, laughing. “And I turned it into a living, eating, Playstationing, music-making, smoking den for me and my mates. And that’s what we did, 24-7.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 February 14, Wesley Morris, “Dancing aside, ‘Step Up 2’ just plods”, in The Boston Globe, volume 273, number 45, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, page D9, column 3",
          "text": "While she falls asleep studying, the rest of gang is partying and PlayStationing; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Michael Yates, edited by John Clarke, Life Class, [Wakefield]: Nettle Books, page 57",
          "text": "And faceless Jason, Playstationing for 30 hours or more, ratcheted down from Druggie High, to twitch upon the floor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 May 19, Joanna Molloy, “Ring Around the Rosie days in city are long gone”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, page 3, column 1",
          "text": "[Lenore] Skenazy wrote on her May 22 dotcom FreeRangeKids, it would be “a day to get kids outside to meet each other and relearn the lost art of playing! As opposed to PlayStationing.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, J. T. Dock Houk, Life’s a Joke, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, page 348",
          "text": "Dad comes in—Skyler is playstationing. Dad says: “What about your homework?” Skyler says: “Later. All work and no Playstation makes Jack a dull boy.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Amanda Prowse, Another Love, London: Head of Zeus, page 100",
          "text": "They laughed, thinking of their friend who had swapped his evening run for pizza eating and PlayStationing and had ballooned.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "(rare) To play on the PlayStation video game console."
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "play on the PlayStation video game console",
      "word": "playstationen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "PlayStation"
}

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