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Famicom.

A Family Computer (chiefly those available within Japan).

7 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A Family Computer (chiefly those available within Japan).

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Japanese ファミコン (famikon), a syllabic abbreviation of ファミリーコンピューター (famirīkonpyūtā), a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from family + computer.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.