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Definition of Bridge player
1. Noun. A card player in a game of bridge. "We need a 4th hand for bridge"
Specialized synonyms: Bidder, Bridge Partner, Contractor, Declarer
Generic synonyms: Card Player
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bridge Player
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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