Minecraftとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From mine +‎ craft; coined by Paul Eres in May 2009, a member of the TIGSource Forums.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈmaɪnˌkɹæft/

  韻: -æft

• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈmaɪnˌkɹɐːft/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmaɪnˌkɹɑːft/

  韻: -ɑːft

• ハイフネーション: Mine‧craft

固有名詞

Minecraft

1. (video games) A sandbox video game, released in 2011, in which players explore a three-dimensional world made of blocks and can craft items, build structures, fight mobs to get experience points, enchant items and defeat bosses to earn rewards.

   Synonym: MC

   Sam has beaten the Ender Dragon twice, killed the wither thrice, obtained netherite armor and built an obsidian fort in Minecraft.

   • 2016 September 13, Vanessa Friedman, “New York Fashion Week Comes to Life With Thom Browne and Proenza Schouler”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 8 August 2020:

     Chlorine blue, bordered in forest green and looking out onto a Grecian gazebo, the pool was composed of hundreds of ceramic kitchen tiles, like a Minecraft version of C.Z. Guest’s once-upon-a-time world.

   • 2019 February 25, Dale Berning Sawa, “Why the world has gone wild for reversible sequins”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 7 November 2020:

     If you know a tween, chances are you have bought them something sparkly in the past couple of years – and not only if they are a girl. From Next’s boys’ sequinned T-shirt that flips between Minecraft designs to Paperchase’s rainbow-encrusted notebook […], these addictively tactile surfaces are everywhere.

   • 2022 August 24, India Block, “Like a beige, banal biscuit tin: why London’s new buildings all look the same”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 22 September 2022:

     London’s mayoralty insists that its new homes must look like old homes – just new, and more of them. So the city has ended up with endless variations of a Georgian terrace that looks like it’s been rendered in Minecraft.

派生語

参考

• Appendix:Minecraft, a glossary of terms used in Minecraft

動詞

Minecraft (third-person singular simple present Minecrafts, present participle Minecrafting, simple past and past participle Minecrafted)

1. (intransitive) To play the video game Minecraft.
   • 2023, Wagner James Au, Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to A Virtual World Worth Fighting For:

     In the fullness of time, we can confirm that consumers do generally prefer metaverse platforms named after verbs, or at least strongly imply them: Minecrafting, building blocks and forts in Roblox and Fortnite, VRChat-ing, and so on.

   • 2025 March 30, Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Neil Widener, Gavin James, and Chris Galletta, A Minecraft Movie, spoken by Steve (Jack Black):

     First we mine, then we craft. Let’s Minecraft!

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