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theory, fictitious play is a learning rule that describes how players might learn over time in repeated strategic interactions. In fictitious play, each
Fictitious_play
Mathematical models of strategic interactions
1950s, during which the concepts of the core, the extensive form game, fictitious play, repeated games, and the Shapley value were developed. The 1950s also
Game_theory
Paper-and-pencil game for two players
indicate the win. It is a solved game, with a forced draw assuming best play from both players. In American English, the game is known as "tic-tac-toe"
Tic-tac-toe
Solution concept of a non-cooperative game
game, player A loses a point to B if A and B play the same strategy and wins a point from B if they play different strategies. To compute the mixed-strategy
Nash_equilibrium
Standard example in game theory
They invited economist Armen Alchian and mathematician John Williams to play a hundred rounds of the game, observing that Alchian and Williams often chose
Prisoner's_dilemma
Decision rule used for minimizing the possible loss for a worst-case scenario
row player can play T, which guarantees them a payoff of at least 2 (playing B is risky since it can lead to payoff −100, and playing M can result in
Minimax
Game whose outcome can be correctly predicted
can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming that both players play perfectly. This concept is usually applied to abstract strategy games, and
Solved_game
Hand game for two players or more
scissors"), but will lose to one who has played paper ("paper covers rock"); a play of paper will lose to a play of scissors ("scissors cuts paper"). If
Rock_paper_scissors
Situation where total gains match total losses
into an (n+1)-player zero-sum game, where the n+1st player, denoted the fictitious player, receives the negative of the sum of the gains of the other n-players
Zero-sum_game
1984 apocalyptic war drama television film
the viewer, without once letting him retreat behind the safe wall of fictitious play. Formidable and foreboding, Threads leaves nothing to our imagination
Threads_(1984_film)
Weakly optimal allocation of resources
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Pareto_efficiency
Frame-dependent apparent force in Physics
disciplines such as classical mechanics, meteorology, and astrophysics. Fictitious forces play a crucial role in understanding everyday phenomena, such as weather
Fictitious_force
Overuse of a shared resource
harvests from the resource. In simultaneous play, all people harvest at the same time, whereas in sequential play people harvest from the pool according to
Tragedy_of_the_commons
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
required to wear the Star of David and to obey a 6 p.m. curfew. I had gone to play with a Christian friend and had stayed too late. I turned my brown sweater
Daniel_Kahneman
Model of humans as rational, self-interested agents
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Homo_economicus
Finding an optimal algorithm for playing chess
Progress to date is extremely limited; there are tablebases of perfect endgame play with a small number of pieces (up to seven), and some chess variants have
Solving_chess
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
Ulam suspected they may have shaped his views on how future events could play out and how human nature and society worked in general. Von Neumann's closest
John_von_Neumann
Logical paradox in decision-making theory
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Paradox_of_tolerance
Hand game for two or more players
example of a combinatorial game, and is solved in the sense that, with perfect play, an optimal strategy from any point is known. In Chopsticks, players tally
Chopsticks_(hand_game)
Proof all ranked voting rules have spoilers
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Arrow's_impossibility_theorem
Concept in game theory
_{i}(v)=\varphi _{j}(w)} . This means that the labeling of the agents doesn't play a role in the assignment of their gains. The Shapley value can be defined
Shapley_value
Search algorithm
tree. It is an adversarial search algorithm used commonly for machine playing of two-player combinatorial games (Tic-tac-toe, Chess, Connect 4, etc.)
Alpha–beta_pruning
Model of conflict for two players in game theory
escalated than the other. They can use threat displays (play Dove), or physically attack each other (play Hawk). If both players choose the Hawk strategy, then
Chicken_(game)
Game theory scenario
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Win–win_game
Pairing where no unchosen pair prefers each other over their choice
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Stable_matching_problem
Game that repeats a base game
which rely heavily on linear algebra and the concepts expressed in fictitious play. It may be deducted that you can determine the characterization of
Repeated_game
Diplomatic policy of concessions
Fascist Italy. Under British pressure, appeasement of Nazism and Fascism also played a role in French foreign policy of the period but was always much less popular
Appeasement
Making of satisfactory, not optimal, decisions
by Kahneman found that emotions and the psychology of economic decisions play a larger role in the economics field than originally thought. The study focused
Bounded_rationality
Condition in economics and game theory
starting hands of each player in a card game). Games where some aspect of play is hidden from opponents – such as the cards in poker and bridge – are examples
Perfect_information
Simultaneous game found in game theory
probabilities p = (d-b)/(a+d-b-c) to play Up and 1-p to play Down for player 1, and q = (D-C)/(A+D-B-C) to play Left and 1-q to play Right for player 2. Since d
Coordination_game
Statement that players know and also know that other players know (ad infinitum)
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Common_knowledge_(logic)
unilaterally change their strategy. Considering only situations where players play a single strategy without randomizing (a pure strategy) a game can have any
List_of_games_in_game_theory
Problem in process of sharing surplus
This could be some focal equilibrium that both players could expect to play, or zero if no agreement is reached. This point directly affects the bargaining
Cooperative_bargaining
Concept in game theory
best response with some learning rules (as in Fictitious play) can result in players learning to play mixed strategy Nash equilibria. Solved game Fudenberg
Best_response
Human behavior pattern in which the participant takes on increasing risk
commitment can then occur in any of these situations. External groups can play an even larger part in escalating commitment if their power is greater than
Escalation_of_commitment
Branch of game theory about two-player sequential games with perfect information
of the solved game. For instance, tic-tac-toe is solved in that optimal play by both participants always results in a draw. Determining such outcomes
Combinatorial_game_theory
Game illustrating paradox in rational choice theory
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Dollar_auction
Game theory concept
players to play the unique Nash equilibrium (both players defecting). Because of this, all games prior to the last subgame will also play the Nash equilibrium
Subgame_perfect_equilibrium
2009 film by Jordan Galland
written and directed by Jordan Galland. The film's title refers to a fictitious play-within-the-movie, which is a comic reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead
Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_Are_Undead
American statistician (1917–2005)
presaged the details and rise of the early internet. The concept of fictitious play in game theory is due to him. Brown received his S.B in 1937 and his
George W. Brown (computer scientist)
George_W._Brown_(computer_scientist)
Concept in game theory
sophisticated and that the levels 0, 1, 2, ..., n − 1 on which their opponents play follow a normalized Poisson distribution. This model works well in multi-player
Focal_point_(game_theory)
Military strategy during the Cold War with regard to the use of nuclear weapons
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Deterrence_theory
Game-theoretic concept
equilibrium is in dominant strategies. Any pre-play cheap talk will be ignored and players will play their dominant strategies (Defect, Defect) regardless
Cheap_talk
Simple mathematical game
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Pirate_game
Economic phenomenon
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Tyranny_of_small_decisions
Family of iterative methods
been used in the social sciences to describe collective dynamics: fictitious play in learning theory and consensus algorithms can be studied using their
Stochastic_approximation
Wide-ranging representation of a game in game theory
subsets, one for each (rational) player, and with a special subset for a fictitious player called Chance (or Nature). Each player's subset of nodes is referred
Extensive-form_game
Hungarian-American economist and philosopher (1920–2000)
Harsanyi, John C. (November 1967). "Games with incomplete information played by "Bayesian" players, I–III. part I. The Basic Model". Management Science
John_Harsanyi
Theorem in game theory
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Aumann's_agreement_theorem
English saying meaning "equivalent retaliation"
copies what the other player previously chose. If players cooperate by playing strategy (C,C) they cooperate forever. Cooperation gives the following
Tit_for_tat
Israeli psychologist (1937–1996)
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Amos_Tversky
Algorithmic technique
"fictitious play" which was proposed in game theory in the early 1950s. Grigoriadis and Khachiyan applied a randomized variant of "fictitious play" to
Multiplicative weight update method
Multiplicative_weight_update_method
Dynamical system
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Replicator_equation
Solution concept in game theory
be better off if they could play Cooperate, but since Defect fares better each individual player has an incentive to play Defect. One solution to this
Evolutionarily stable strategy
Evolutionarily_stable_strategy
Quality of a strategy in game theory
always produce a better result than B, regardless of how any other player plays. Some very simple games (called straightforward games) can be solved using
Strategic_dominance
Representation of a game in game theory
every stage of the game, regardless of whether that stage actually arises in play. A payoff function for a player is a mapping from the cross-product of players'
Normal-form_game
Field of economics and game theory
equilibrium. The easiest one to define is for the mechanism to commit to playing the agents' equilibrium strategies for them. y ( θ ^ ) : Θ → S ( Θ ) →
Mechanism_design
Two-player coordination game in game theory
expectations would form that would result in a particular equilibrium being played out. One possible resolution of the difficulty involves the use of a correlated
Battle of the sexes (game theory)
Battle_of_the_sexes_(game_theory)
Game in economic experiments
S2CID 14646404. Proctor, Darby; Williamson; de Waal; Brosnan (2013). "Chimpanzees play the ultimatum game". PNAS. 110 (6): 2070–2075. doi:10.1073/pnas.1220806110
Ultimatum_game
Decrease in severity of conflicts
of one's partner in role-play exercises. Participants reported that peer role-play is generally inferior to other role-play options that are aimed at
De-escalation
Israeli-American mathematician (born 1930)
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Robert_Aumann
Preference of known risks to unknown risks
in the presence of ambiguity and attempts to determine whether subjects playing the Battle of Sexes game prefer to choose an ambiguity safe option. The
Ambiguity_aversion
Economic model
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Cournot_competition
Problem in game theory
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El_Farol_Bar_problem
Variant of Nash equilibrium in game theory
equilibrium is an equilibrium that takes the possibility of off-the-equilibrium play into account by assuming that the players, through a "slip of the hand" or
Trembling hand perfect equilibrium
Trembling_hand_perfect_equilibrium
Mathematical game
since no player will guess above 2/3 * 100. If the same group of people play the game consistently, this process of the highest possible logical answer
Guess_2/3_of_the_average
Class of theorems about Nash equilibrium payoff profiles in repeated games
All players start by playing a and continue to play a if no deviation occurs. 2. If any one player, say player i, deviated, play the strategy profile
Folk_theorem_(game_theory)
Game class in game theory
s^{*},} levels which are "impossible" in equilibrium since neither type plays them. These beliefs must be such that neither player would want to deviate
Signaling_game
Experimental tool
point to other behavioral attributes that may influence how individuals play the game. Specifically, people are motivated by altruism and how their actions
Dictator_game
Simple game studied in game theory
Matching pennies is a non-cooperative game studied in game theory. It is played between two players, Even and Odd. Each player has a penny and must secretly
Matching_pennies
Combinatorial game theory theorem
Sprague–Grundy theorem states that every impartial game under the normal play convention is equivalent to a one-heap game of nim, or to an infinite generalization
Sprague–Grundy_theorem
Variation of minimax game tree search
ultimately sets the root node's best score also represents the best move to play. Although the negamax function shown only returns the node's best score,
Negamax
Problem of sharing resources
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Fair_division
Facilitating a peaceful outcome to a dispute
Science 289: 586–590. Hicks, Donna. 2011. Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict. Yale University Press Silk, Joan B. (2002). "The
Conflict_resolution
Resource distribution game
1950 research memorandum states Borel's optimal strategy, and coined the fictitious Colonel Blotto and Enemy names. For three battlefields or more, the space
Blotto_game
Fictitious name used for a particular purpose
ψευδώνυμος (pseudṓnumos) 'falsely named') or alias (/ˈeɪli.əs/) is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from
Pseudonym
Set in game theory
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Core_(game_theory)
Experimental economics game
and thus intra-group cooperation. "Repeat-play" public goods games involve the same group of subjects playing the basic game over a series of rounds. The
Public_goods_game
Concept in economics and game theory
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Global_game
Game whose payoffs depend on strategies as opposed to players
game where the payoffs for playing a particular strategy depend only on the other strategies employed, not on who is playing them. If one can change the
Symmetric_game
Game theory concept
subsequent play be optimal starting from any information set. It also requires that beliefs be updated consistently with Bayes' rule on every path of play that
Bayesian_game
Analog of Pareto efficiency for situations with incomplete information
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Bayesian_efficiency
Concept in game theory
is a repeated game with probabilistic transitions played by one or more players. The game is played in a sequence of stages. At the beginning of each
Stochastic_game
Trigger strategy
i and j is as follows: Play C in every period unless someone has ever played D in the past Play D forever if someone has played D in the past Then, the
Grim_trigger
Method used to study economic questions
the 1990s, simple adaptive models, such as Cournot competition or fictitious play, were generally used. In the mid-1990s, Alvin E. Roth and Ido Erev
Experimental_economics
Neologism for cooperative competition
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Coopetition
Two player pursuit-evasion problem
A princess and monster game is a pursuit–evasion game played by two players in a region. In his book Differential Games (1965), Rufus Isaacs defined the
Princess_and_monster_game
Term in game theory
Poker requires a dealer to choose which cards a player is dealt, the dealer plays the role of the nature player. Moves by nature are an integral part of games
Move_by_nature
Academic discipline
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3077. "Quantum Two Up - Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. Simon C. Benjamin; Patrick M. Hayden (13 August 2001). "Multiplayer
Quantum_game_theory
Strategy which only depends on the current state of a game
summary statistic that captures the strategic situation or recent sequence of play. A profile of Markov strategies forms a Markov perfect equilibrium if it
Markov_strategy
Polish-American mathematician (1911-1992)
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Melvin_Dresher
Complete plan on how a game player will behave in every possible game situation
In game theory, a move, action, or play is any one of the options which a player can choose in a setting where the optimal outcome depends not only on
Strategy_(game_theory)
American economist (born 1939)
with incentives to be selfish, they continue to be selfish even when they play in a second game without those incentives. In a "regulation" model where
Samuel_Bowles_(economist)
Solution concept in game theory
is that, by playing in the first day, the players may reveal some information about their costs, and this information might affect the play in the second
Perfect_Bayesian_equilibrium
American engineer and author
Lambert, Theodore J.; Epelman, Marina A.; Smith, Robert L. (2005). "A fictitious play approach to large-scale optimization". Operations Research. 53 (3):
Robert_L._Smith_(academic)
Conflict between safety and cooperation
risk dominance) can generate a mixed strategy equilibrium where Stag is played with a probability higher than one half. Although most authors focus on
Stag_hunt
Argument in combinatorial game theory
conditions above is not a disadvantage – the first player may then also play according to this winning strategy. The result is that both players are guaranteed
Strategy-stealing_argument
Economic model
action and the 'leader' knew this, the leader's best response would be to play a Stackelberg follower action. Firms may engage in Stackelberg competition
Stackelberg_competition
Solution concept in game theory
strategies s and s' such that the expected payoff of playing s is smaller than the expected payoff of playing s' (that is u ( s , σ − i ) < u ( s ′ , σ − i )
Proper_equilibrium
Two-player extensive form game
that subgame perfect equilibria and Nash equilibria fail to predict human play in some circumstances. The Centipede game is commonly used in introductory
Centipede_game
FICTITIOUS PLAY
FICTITIOUS PLAY
Boy/Male
Australian, Chinese, Hebrew, Vietnamese
Fence; Fictitious Four-legged Animal with a Single Horn on the Head; Unicorn
Surname or Lastname
English
English : status name from Middle English knyghte ‘knight’, Old English cniht ‘boy’, ‘youth’, ‘serving lad’. This word was used as a personal name before the Norman Conquest, and the surname may in part reflect a survival of this. It is also possible that in a few cases it represents a survival of the Old English sense into Middle English, as an occupational name for a domestic servant. In most cases, however, it clearly comes from the more exalted sense that the word achieved in the Middle Ages. In the feudal system introduced by the Normans the word was applied at first to a tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier. Hence it came to denote a man of some substance, since maintaining horses and armor was an expensive business. As feudal obligations became increasingly converted to monetary payments, the term lost its precise significance and came to denote an honorable estate conferred by the king on men of noble birth who had served him well. Knights in this last sense normally belonged to ancient noble families with distinguished family names of their own, so that the surname is more likely to have been applied to a servant in a knightly house or to someone who had played the part of a knight in a pageant or won the title in some contest of skill.Irish : part translation of Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the rider or knight’. See also McKnight.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : one of the most common and widespread of English surnames, either a nickname for someone who was fond of dressing in this color (Old English grēne) or who had played the part of the ‘Green Man’ in the May Day celebrations, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a village green, Middle English grene (a transferred use of the color term). In North America this name has no doubt assimilated cognates from other European languages, notably German Grün (see Gruen).Jewish (American) : Americanized form of German Grün or Yiddish Grin, Ashkenazic ornamental names meaning ‘green’ or a short form of any of the numerous compounds with this element.Irish : translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from glas ‘gray’, ‘green’, ‘blue’. See also Fahey.North German : short form of a habitational name from a place name with Gren- as the first element (for example Greune, Greubole).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English dyse, dyce ‘die’, ‘dice’, ‘chance’, ‘luck’, probably applied as a nickname for an habitual dice player or gambler or as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of dice. Compare Deas.Possibly also an Americanized spelling of German Deiss.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from the vocabulary word lord, presumably for someone who behaved in a lordly manner, or perhaps one who had earned the title in some contest of skill or had played the part of the ‘Lord of Misrule’ in the Yuletide festivities. It may also have been an occupational name for a servant in the household of the lord of the manor, or possibly a status name for a landlord or the lord of the manor himself. The word itself derives from Old English hlÄford, earlier hlÄf-weard, literally ‘loaf-keeper’, since the lord or chief of a clan was responsible for providing food for his dependants.Irish : English name adopted as a translation of the main element of Gaelic Ó Tighearnaigh (see Tierney) and Mac Thighearnáin (see McKiernan).French : nickname from Old French l’ord ‘the dirty one’.Possibly an altered spelling of Laur.The French name is particularly associated with Acadia in Canada, around 1760.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from an agent derivative of Middle English pleyen ‘to play’, hence an occupational name for an actor or musician or a nickname for a successful competitor in contests of athletic or sporting prowess.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Middle English personal name Gullake, Gudloc (Old English GūðlÄc, composed of the elements gūð ‘battle’ + lÄc ‘sport’, ‘play’, reinforced by the Old Norse cognate Guðleikr).See Gullick.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a fiddle player or a nickname for a skilled or enthusiastic amateur, from Old English fiðelere ‘fiddler’.German : variant of Fiedler.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a player on the lute, Middle English lutar, an agent derivative of lute.English : metonymic occupational name for an otter hunter, from Old French loutre ‘otter’.Dutch : variant of Luther 1.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, German, and Dutch
English, Scottish, German, and Dutch : from Horn 1 with the agent suffix -er; an occupational name for someone who made or sold small articles made of horn, a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a ‘horn’ of land.habitational name from Horner in Diptford, Devon, which is named from Old English horn ‘horn of land’ + ora ‘hill spur’, ‘ridge’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Horn 4.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Norfolk)
English (mainly Norfolk) : habitational name from a place in Suffolk, so called from Old English plæga, plega ‘sport’, ‘play’ + ford ‘ford’.
Surname or Lastname
Jewish (American)
Jewish (American) : Americanized form of Gorelik.English (chiefly Lancashire) : from Middle English garlek ‘garlic’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of garlic or perhaps a nickname for someone who ate a lot of garlic. An alternative derivation of the English name is from an unrecorded survival into Middle English of the Old English personal name GÄrlÄc, which is composed of the elements gÄr ‘spear’ + lÄc ‘sport’, ‘play’.German : altered form of Garlich (see Gerlich).
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, German, and Dutch
English, Scottish, German, and Dutch : from Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Dutch horn ‘horn’, applied in a variety of senses: as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made small articles, such as combs, spoons, and window lights, out of horn; as a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal; as a topographic name for someone who lived by a horn-shaped spur of a hill or tongue of land in a bend of a river, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this element (for example, in England, Horne in Surrey on a spur of a hill and Horn in Rutland in a bend of a river); as a nickname, perhaps referring to some feature of a person’s physical appearance, or denoting a cuckolded husband.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.Swedish : ornamental or topographic name from horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : presumably from German Horn ‘horn’, adopted as a surname for reasons that are not clear. It may be purely ornamental, or it may refer to the ram’s horn (Hebrew shofar) blown in the Synagogue during various ceremonies.
Surname or Lastname
English and Dutch
English and Dutch : from the rare medieval female personal name Eve, Eva (from Hebrew Chava, of uncertain origin). This was, according to the Book of Genesis, the name of the first woman, and in some cases the name may have been acquired by someone (invariably a man) who had played the part in a drama dealing with the Creation.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname from Middle English king, Old English cyning ‘king’ (originally merely a tribal leader, from Old English cyn(n) ‘tribe’, ‘race’ + the Germanic suffix -ing). The word was already used as a byname before the Norman Conquest, and the nickname was common in the Middle Ages, being used to refer to someone who conducted himself in a kingly manner, or one who had played the part of a king in a pageant, or one who had won the title in a tournament. In other cases it may actually have referred to someone who served in the king’s household. The American surname has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig), Swiss German Küng, French Leroy. It is also found as an Ashkenazic Jewish surname, of ornamental origin.Chinese : variant of Jin 1.Chinese : , , , , Jing.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Déville in Seine-Maritime, France, probably named with Latin dei villa ‘settlement of (i.e. under the protection of) God’. This name was interpreted early on as a prepositional phrase de ville or de val and applied to dwellers in a town or valley (see Ville and Vale).English : nickname from Middle English devyle, Old English dēofol ‘devil’ (Latin diabolus, from Greek diabolos ‘slanderer’, ‘enemy’), referring to a mischievous youth or perhaps to someone who had acted the role of the Devil in a pageant or mystery play.French : variant of Ville, with the preposition de.
Surname or Lastname
German
German : from a variant of the Germanic personal name Gambert, or some other personal name formed with Old High German gam(an) ‘joy’, ‘play’.English : variant spelling of Gamble.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Murlimanohar | à®®à¯à®°à®²à¯€à®®à®¨à¯‹à®¹à®°
The flute playing God
Murlimanohar | à®®à¯à®°à®²à¯€à®®à®¨à¯‹à®¹à®°
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire)
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire) : nickname from the personal name Herod (Greek HÄ“rÅdÄ“s, apparently derived from hÄ“rÅs ‘hero’), borne by the king of Judea (died ad 4) who at the time of the birth of Christ ordered that all male children in Bethlehem should be slaughtered (Matthew 2: 16–18). In medieval mystery plays Herod was portrayed as a blustering tyrant, and the name was therefore given to someone one who had played the part, or who had an overbearing temper.English : variant of Harold (1 or 2).Greek : shortened form of Herodiadis, a patronymic from the classical personal name HÄ“rodiÅn. This was the name of a relative of St. Paul and an early Bishop of Patras, venerated in the Orthodox Church. HÄ“rodÄ“s ‘Herod’ is also found in Greek as a nickname for a violent man, but this is less likely to be the source of the surname.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : occupational name for a player on the harp, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Middle Dutch harp ‘harp’. The harper was one of the most important figures of a medieval baronial hall, especially in Scotland and northern England, and the office of harper was sometimes hereditary. The Scottish surname is probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Chruiteir ‘son of the harper’ (from Gaelic cruit ‘harp’, ‘stringed instrument’). This surname has long been present in Ireland.
FICTITIOUS PLAY
FICTITIOUS PLAY
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Mountain
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Fosterer of Life
Boy/Male
Irish Latin
noble.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Union; Goddess Durga
Boy/Male
English
Gift
Girl/Female
Latin
Goddess of marriage.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Monishka | மோநீஷà¯à®•à®¾Â
Intelligence
Male
Welsh
Welsh form of Roman Latin Marianus, MEIRION means "like Marius."
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Shining; Light; Glow; Splendour; Brightness
Boy/Male
African, American, Danish, German, Hindu, Indian, Latin, Marathi, Swedish
Youth
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FICTITIOUS PLAY
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Fictitious.
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A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name.
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The using of fictitious names, as by authors.
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Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work.
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One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought.
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Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
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Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
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Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
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Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste.
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A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan.
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Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
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A fabulous or fictitious story.
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Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.
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Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.
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The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales.
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Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc.
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A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
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Setted by a pact, or agreement.
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Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.
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Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion.