Minecraft
To play the video game Minecraft.
Proper noun
- 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.
- Sam has beaten the Ender Dragon twice, killed the wither thrice, obtained netherite armor and built an obsidian fort in Minecraft.
- 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. - 2016...
- 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...
Synonyms: MC
Origin
From mine + -craft; coined by Paul Eres in May 2009, a member of the TIGSource Forums.
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Derived
in Minecraft MC MCPE MCYT Minecrafter Minecraftian Minecraftlike Minecrafty the craft
Verb
- To play the video game Minecraft.
- 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,...
- First we mine, then we craft. Let’s Minecraft! - 2025 March 30, Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Neil Widener, Gavin James, and Chris Galletta, A Minecraft Movie, spoken by Steve (Jack Black):