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Definition of Card game
1. Noun. A game played with playing cards.
Terms within: Discard, Make, Shuffle, Shuffling, Cut, Cutting, Double, Doubling, Deal, Lead, Renege, Revoke, Call
Examples of category: Discard, Reshuffle, Reshuffling, Deal, Ruff, Trumping, Trick, Shoe, Trump, Book, Revoke, Unblock, Bluff, Bluff Out, Ruff, Trump, Overtrump, Crossruff, Exit, Lurch, Skunk, Ante, Underplay, Check, Pitch, Cover, Raise, See, Reshuffle, Riffle, Deal, Deal, Misdeal, Bid, Call, Fourhanded
Generic synonyms: Game
Specialized synonyms: All Fours, High-low-jack, Baccarat, Chemin De Fer, Beggar-my-neighbor, Beggar-my-neighbour, Strip-jack-naked, Blackjack, Twenty-one, Vingt-et-un, Bridge, Casino, Cassino, Crib, Cribbage, Ecarte, Euchre, Five Hundred, Fantan, Parliament, Sevens, Faro, Go Fish, Four-card Monte, Monte, Three-card Monte, Boodle, Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, Stops, Nap, Napoleon, Old Maid, Bezique, Penuchle, Pinochle, Pinocle, Piquet, Pisha Paysha, Poker, Poker Game, Rouge Et Noir, Trente-et-quarante, Rum, Rummy, Patience, Solitaire, Long Whist, Short Whist, Whist
Definition of Card game
1. Noun. Any of very many games played with playing cards. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Card Game
Literary usage of Card game
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"At the two-handed five-card game, when neither can come in the play is at an end;
.... At the six-card game or in crib, with another S then would be three ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1874)
"A new and interesting card game, forming a complete chronological record of the
principal events in Did and New Testament history. ..."
3. The Household Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Daily Wants by Alexander V. Hamilton (1873)
"All the cards are played out in this game, as in the six-card game, ... Four-handed
cribbage is simply the five-card game played by four persons, ..."
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