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Famicom

The English word “Famicom” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

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

Etymology

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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