Minecraft

See also: minecraft

English

Screenshot of Minecraft

Etymology

Etymology tree

English mine

Proto-Germanic *krafjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *kraftuz

Proto-West Germanic *kraftu

Old English cræft

Old English -cræft

Middle English -craft

English -craft

English Minecraft

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnˌkɹæft/

  Rhymes: -æft

• (trap–bath split)
  • (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnˌkɹɐːft/

    • Audio (Australia):

      (file)

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnˌkɹɑːft/

    Rhymes: -ɑːft

• Hyphenation: Mine‧craft

Proper noun

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^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, 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 Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[4], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, 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 Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[5], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, 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.

Derived terms

• -craft
• in Minecraft
• MC
• MCPE
• MCYT
• Minecrafter
• Minecraftian
• Minecraftlike
• Minecrafty
• the craft

Translations

the game Minecraft

• Bulgarian: Майнкрафт f (Majnkraft)
• Burmese: မိုင်ကရက်ဖ (muingka.rakhpa.)
• Chinese:

  Literary Chinese: 礦藝 (Kuàngyì)

  Cantonese: 當個創世神 / 当个创世神 (dong¹ go³ cong³ sai³ san⁴), Minecraft

  Mandarin: 我的世界 (zh) (Wǒ de Shìjiè) (Mainland China), 當個創世神 / 当个创世神 (Dāng ge Chuàngshì Shén) (Taiwan, Hong Kong), Minecraft (Hong Kong, Taiwan), 麥塊 / 麦块 (Màikuài) (slang, Taiwan)

• Czech: Minecraft m
• Danish: Minecraft
• Dutch: Minecraft (nl) n
• Finnish: Minecraft
• French: Minecraft (fr) m or f, minecraft (fr)
• German: Minecraft n
• Hindi: माइनक्राफ़्ट (māinkrāfṭ)
• Icelandic: Minecraft
• Italian: Minecraft
• Japanese: マインクラフト (Mainkurafuto), マイクラ (Maikura)
• Korean: 마인크래프트 (Mainkeuraepeuteu)
• Māori: Mahimaina
• Marathi: माइनक्राफ्ट m (māinakrāphṭa)
• Norwegian: Minecraft
• Persian: ماینکرفت (fa) (Mâinkraft)
• Polish: Minecraft m
• Portuguese: Minecraft m
• Russian: майнкрафт m (majnkraft)
• Spanish: Minecraft
• Swedish: Minecraft
• Thai: มายคราฟ (maikhrap)
• Turkish: Minecraft
• Ukrainian: майнкрафт (uk) m (majnkraft)
• Vietnamese: Minecraft

See also

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

Verb

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!

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

English mine

Proto-Germanic *krafjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *kraftuz

Proto-West Germanic *kraftu

Old English cræft

Old English -cræft

Middle English -craft

English -craft

English Minecraftubor.

Czech Minecraft

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmajn̩kraft]

Proper noun

Minecraft m inan

1. Minecraft (video game)

Declension

Declension of Minecraft (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Minecraft
genitive	Minecraftu
dative	Minecraftu
accusative	Minecraft
vocative	Minecrafte
locative	Minecraftu
instrumental	Minecraftem

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑjnkrɛft/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Minecraft n

1. Minecraft (video game)

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /majn.kʁaft/

Proper noun

Minecraft m

1. (video games) Minecraft

German

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnkɹɑːft/, /-ɛːft/, /-aːft/, /ˈmaɪnkʁ-/

Proper noun

Minecraft n (proper noun, strong, genitive Minecrafts)

1. (video games) Minecraft

Declension

Declension of Minecraft [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Minecraft
genitive	eines	des	Minecrafts
dative	einem	dem	Minecraft
accusative	ein	das	Minecraft

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

Proper noun

Minecraft m

1. (video games) Minecraft

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

English mine

Proto-Germanic *krafjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *kraftuz

Proto-West Germanic *kraftu

Old English cræft

Old English -cræft

Middle English -craft

English -craft

English Minecraftubor.

Polish Minecraft

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmajn.kraft/
• Rhymes: -ajnkraft
• Syllabification: Mine‧craft

Proper noun

Minecraft m inan (related adjective minecraftowy)

1. Minecraft

Declension

Declension of Minecraft

	singular
nominative	Minecraft
genitive	Minecraftu
dative	Minecraftowi
accusative	Minecraft
instrumental	Minecraftem
locative	Minecrafcie
vocative	Minecrafcie

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

English mine

Proto-Germanic *krafjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *kraftuz

Proto-West Germanic *kraftu

Old English cræft

Old English -cræft

Middle English -craft

English -craft

English Minecraftubor.

Portuguese Minecraft

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmaj.niˈkɾɛf.t͡ʃi/ [ˌmaɪ̯.niˈkɾɛf.t͡ʃi], /ˌmaj.niˈkɹɛ.fi.t͡ʃi/ [ˌmaɪ̯.niˈkɹɛ.fi.t͡ʃi], /ˌmaj.niˈkɹɛf.t͡ʃi/ [ˌmaɪ̯.niˈkɹɛf.t͡ʃi], /mɐ̃.niˈkɾɛf.t͡ʃi/, (uncommon) /ˈmajn.kɹɛft/ [ˈmaɪ̯n.kɹɛft]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmaj.nɨˈkɾaf.tɨ/, (careful pronunciation) /ˈmajn.kɹɛft/

Proper noun

Minecraft m

1. (video games) Minecraft

   Synonym: Mine

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Maincra, maincra

Etymology

Etymology tree

English mine

Proto-Germanic *krafjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *kraftuz

Proto-West Germanic *kraftu

Old English cræft

Old English -cræft

Middle English -craft

English -craft

English Minecraftubor.

Spanish Minecraft

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmainkɾaft/ [ˈmãĩŋ.kɾaft̪], /ˈmainkɾaf/ [ˈmãĩŋ.kɾaf]
• Rhymes: -ainkɾaft, -ainkɾaf
• Syllabification: Mine‧craft

Proper noun

Minecraft m

1. (video games) Minecraft

Vietnamese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Minecraft.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maːj˧˧ kəː˨˩ ɹaːp̚˧˦] ~ [maːj˧˧ kəː˨˩ zaːp̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maːj˧˧ kəː˦˩ ɹaːp̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [maːj˧˧ kəː˨˩ ɹaːp̚˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: mai cờ Ráp

Proper noun

Minecraft

1. (video games) Minecraft
   • 2023 February 5, Khương Nha, VnExpress‎^[6], archived from the original on 28 September 2026:

     Ngoài việc dựng các công trình trong nước, nhóm dự định làm thêm các điểm đến nổi tiếng quốc tế để thu hút sự chú ý của cộng đồng Minecraft nước ngoài.

     In addition to building domestic structures, the group plans to create more popular international destinations to attract the attention of the foreign Minecraft community.