Definition of Bridge player

1. Noun. A card player in a game of bridge. "We need a 4th hand for bridge"

Exact synonyms: Hand
Specialized synonyms: Bidder, Bridge Partner, Contractor, Declarer
Generic synonyms: Card Player

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bridge Player

bridewell
bridewells
bridezilla
bridezillas
bridg
bridge
bridge agent
bridge circuit
bridge corpuscle
bridge deck
bridge hand
bridge loan
bridge mount
bridge over
bridge partner
bridge player (current term)
bridge railing
bridge roll
bridge spider
bridge too far
bridge whist
bridgeable
bridgeboard
bridgeboards
bridgebuilder
bridgebuilders
bridgebuilding
bridged
bridged-T
bridged carbocation

Literary usage of Bridge player

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Plato: Or, Socrates Redivivus by Thomas Lansing Masson (1908)
"PROTAGORAS, the bridge player. HIPPOCRATES. COMPANION: I was wondering, Socrates, where you could have been, for at the house of Callias they had not seen ..."

2. A Life of Books: The Story of D.W. Thorpe Pty. Ltd., 1921-1987 by Daniel Wrixon Thorpe, Joyce Nicholson (2000)
"He became an avid bridge player, as did I, and I am now fortunate to have him as a ... He is not only a friendly partner, but also a top-rate bridge player. ..."

3. Foster's Pirate Bridge: The Latest Development of Auction Bridge, with the by Robert Frederick Foster (1917)
"... bridge player would go back to whist, neither would any auction player return to bridge; but auction, even in its most highly developed state, ..."

4. The Bookman (1910)
"It is equally true that a good bridge-player rarely has a sense of humour. But Mr. Arthur Loring Bruce, in The Bridge Fiend, proves his skill at the game ..."

5. Bridge and Auction Bridge by William Dalton (1910)
"The first-rate bridge player is quite capable of gauging the possibilities of his partner's hand for ' himself, with the assistance of the exposed dummy, ..."

6. Dalton's Complete Bridge by William Dalton (1906)
"... and certain writers on the game have rather gone out of their -way to condemn it, but the fact remains that there is hardly a first-class bridge player ..."

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