So what if a word doesn’t exist--if it sounds cool, slap it on the cover! That’s the position some developers have seemingly taken in regards to naming their games. Case in point: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Yes, Revengeance is technically a stylistic combination of Revenge, Vengeance, and Avenge, and yes, all of those words fit the bill of cool, but seriously. Revengeance? Come on. Gaming neologisms aren't a recent development, either; plenty of games have thrown meaning to the wind in favor of chic-sounding idioms.

But say you have no inkling of what these words could possibly mean. Say, for instance, you’re an online dictionary. How would you interpret these game names? We put some of these made-up words through the lexicon ringer, and the results posit game plots that would suggest wildly different experiences. Check out the scholarly computerized think-tank’s ridiculous responses, and get ready to learn some new words along the way…

Dictionary.com suggests: Revengeance (an obsolete [OR NOT! - Ed] noun meaning vengeance; revenge)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Refinance (to renew or reorganize the financing of)

Dictionary.com suggests: Nondiscoveries (the acts or an instances of not discovering)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Indiscoverable (not discoverable)

Dictionary.com suggests: Orgasm (the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Largesse (liberal giving, as of money, to or as if to an inferior)

Dictionary.com suggests: XAXES (the plural of x-axis, which is the axis along which the abscissa is measured and from which the ordinate is measured)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Sexy (sexually suggestive or stimulating)

Dictionary.com suggests: Tetras (any of several tropical, freshwater fishes of the family Characidae, often kept in aquariums)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Tigress (a female tiger; also a tigerish woman)

Dictionary.com suggests: Postbag (a batch of mail from a single delivery)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Subadult (an individual that has passed through the juvenile period but not yet attained typical adult characteristics)

Dictionary.com suggests: Pitiful (evoking or deserving contempt by smallness, poor quality, etc.)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Videophile (a person fond of video; especially one interested in video equipment or in producing videos)

What about "Viewtiful Joe"?
Dictionary.com suggests: Vitiligo (a skin disorder characterized by smooth, white patches on various parts of the body, caused by the loss ofthe natural pigment)

Dictionary.com suggests: Flax (any plant of the genus Linum, a slender, erect, annual plant having narrow, lance-shaped leaves and blue flowers, cultivated for its fiber and seeds)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Klux (a shortening of Ku-Klux, which is to maltreat or terrorize in a way thought to be typical of Ku Klux Klaners)

Dictionary.com suggests: Styx (a river in the underworld, over which the souls of the dead were ferried by Charon, and by which the gods swore their most solemn oaths)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Stets (to direct retention of a word or passage previously ordered to be deleted or omitted from a manuscript or printer's proof by annotating)

What about "Bubba 'n' Stix"?
Dictionary.com suggests: Bourbonists (those who adherence to the ideas and system of government practiced by the Bourbons)

Dictionary.com suggests: Dosages (administrations of medicine in doses)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Diastole (a rhythmically recurrent expansion; especially the dilatation of the cavities of the heart during which they fill with blood)

Dictionary.com suggests: Metros (the underground electric railways of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Meteoroid (a meteor particle itself without relation to the phenomena it produces when entering the earth's atmosphere)

Dictionary.com suggests: Kwic (of or designating an alphabetical concordance of the principal terms in a text showing every occurrence of each term surrounded by a few words of the context)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Crore (a unit of value equal to ten million rupees [the currency of India, not Hyrule - Ed])

Dictionary.com suggests: Despairer (one who has given up hope)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Diaspora (the settling of scattered colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile)

Dictionary.com suggests: Aterian (of or indicating a Middle Paleolithic industry of northwestern Africa and the Sahara)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Terrain (a geographic area)

Dictionary.com suggests: Draggled (soiled by dragging over damp ground or in mud)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Lake Garda (a lake in northern Italy)

Dictionary.com suggests: Intemerate (inviolate; undefiled; unsullied; pure)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Antimalarial (serving to prevent, control, or cure malaria)

Dictionary.com suggests: Cubiform (having the shape of a cube)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Cuba libre (a cocktail made with rum, lime juice, and cola)

Dictionary.com suggests: Gales (very strong winds)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Gloze (an obsolete word for gloss)

Dictionary.com suggests: Growliness (resembling a growl in pitch and harshness; irritable)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Granulose (having a surface roughened with small particles)

Dictionary.com suggests: Homogamy (interbreeding of individuals with like characteristics)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Ischemia (deficient supply of blood to a body part that is due to obstruction of the inflow of arterial blood)

Dictionary.com suggests: Gotra (a Hindu clan tracing its paternal lineage from a common ancestor, usually a saint or sage)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Hydra (a many-headed serpent or monster in Greek mythology)

Dictionary.com suggests: Hexes (a witch’s spells or charms)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Hexose (a monosaccharide, such as glucose, containing six carbon atoms in a molecule)

Dictionary.com suggests: Hydride (a binary compound formed by hydrogen and another, usually more electropositive, element or group)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Alidade (a part of a surveying instrument consisting of the telescope and its attachments)

Dictionary.com suggests: Blazon (to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; proclaim)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Blazing (of outstanding power, speed, heat, or intensity)

Dictionary.com suggests: Gordon Pasha (a 19th century British general and administrator in China and Egypt)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Daytona Beach (a city in northeast Florida)

Dictionary.com suggests: Escalade (a scaling or mounting by means of ladders, especially in an assault upon a fortified place)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Spatulate (shaped like a spatula)

Dictionary.com suggests: Droplets (little drops)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Droplight (an electric light suspended by a cord or on a portable extension)

Double trouble! Two made-up words for the price of one! It’s a neologism extravaganza!

Dictionary.com suggests: Isidia (coralloid outgrowths from the thallus in certain lichens)
Dictionary.com suggests: Duodecimo (a book size determined by printing on sheets folded to form 12 leaves, or 24 pages)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Dissuade (to advise a person against something)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Duodecimal (of, relating to, or proceeding by twelve or the scale of twelves)

Dictionary.com suggests: Penmen (a person who writes or copies; scribe; copyist)
Dictionary.com suggests: Trailsmen (people who follow a trail)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Pampean (of or relating to the pampas [grass-covered plains] of South America or their Indian inhabitants)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Triathlon (an athletic contest that is a long-distance race consisting of three phases)

Real words! No meaning to the majority of people reading them!

Actual Japanese translation: “Clump Soul”

Dictionary.com suggests: Katmai (an active volcano in southwest Alaska)
Dictionary.com suggests: Daman (a rare name for the hyrax, any of several species of small mammals of the order Hyracoidea, of Africa and the Mediterranean region)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Catenary (the curve assumed by a cord of uniform density and cross section that is perfectly flexible but not capable of being stretched and that hangs freely from two fixed points)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Admass (mass-media advertising)

Actual Japanese translation: “True Goddess Reincarnation”

Dictionary.com suggests: Magma (molten material beneath or within the earth's crust)
Dictionary.com suggests: Tense (in a state of mental or nervous strain)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Megohm (one million ohms)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Teensy (very small or diminutive)

Actual German translation: “Duke Two”

Dictionary.com suggests: Wei (any of several dynasties that ruled in North China, especially one ruling a.d. 220–265 and one ruling a.d. 386–534)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Zori (a flat thonged sandal usually made of straw, cloth, leather, or rubber)

What about "Herzog Zwei"?
Dictionary.com suggests: Hoosgows (a slang word for jail)

Actual Japanese translation: “Great Ball”

Dictionary.com suggests: Adama (another name for Admah, one of the cities that was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Edema (an abnormal infiltration and excess accumulation of serous fluid in connective tissue)

Actual German translation: “Ambition”

Dictionary.com suggests: Elegize (to lament in an elegy)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Erotize (to invest with erotic significance or sexual feeling)

Actual Japanese and German translation: “Water Margin Zodiac”

Dictionary.com suggests: Sudden (happening, coming, made, or done quickly, without warning, or unexpectedly)
Dictionary.com suggests: Terries (the loops formed by the pile of a fabric when left uncut)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Studding (the studs of a building or wall)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Traitress (a woman who is a traitor)

So, would you play any of these dictionary-approved games? Metal Gear Rising: Refinance, where Raiden must allocate funds? Bourbonist Joe, Capcom's spotlight on a young man's extremely conservative politics? Let us know in the comments if we missed any of your favorite made-up game names, and how those chumps at Oxford would interpret it.

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