battle royale
A video game genre centered around survival, exploration and scavenging, with…A video game genre centered around survival, exploration and scavenging, with last-man-standing gameplay.
Meaning
1 sensesA video game genre centered around survival, exploration and scavenging, with last-man-standing gameplay.
королевская битваkorol'évskaja bítva, баттл-роялbattl-rojál, баттл-рояльbattl-rojál'
Translations
1 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
The video game usage derives from the 2000 film Battle Royale, which has a similar premiseThe video game usage derives from the 2000 film Battle Royale, which has a similar premise to the video game genre.
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Forms
plural: battles royale / battle royalesLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.