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Sega¹
- /ˈseɪ.ɡə/
- /ˈsɛ.ɡə/
Rhymes with -eɪɡə
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Japanese セガ (Sega), an abbreviation of service games, because the company's earliest products were aimed at American servicemen on military bases.
noun Segas
- Any of various video game consoles manufactured by Sega, a Japanese video game developer and publisher and manufacturer of arcade games and formerly of video game consoles. I would lay in bed for a few hours playing games on my Sega, getting totally absorbed in it as though it were all real and then I would sleep for the rest of the day.
sega²
Where it comes from
From Mauritian Creole sega, possibly from a Bantu source meaning "dance".
noun
- A genre of popular music mainly associated with Mauritius.
SEGA³
proper noun
- Initialism of Super Extended Graphics Array
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: capcom, game console, games console, gaming console, gameware, sensi, blast processing, system seller, simcade, gaming machine, arcade game, codies, controller, portable, console, xbox
Talk about this word "sega." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sega. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sega. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sega "sega." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sega.Cite this
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