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Definition of Cards
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 Cards
1. Noun. (plural of card) ¹
2. Noun. card game ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cards
1. card [v] - See also: card
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cards
Literary usage of Cards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1828)
"STAMPS ON cards AMD DICE.] The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Acts
regulating the Stamp Duties upon cards and Dice, Mr. G. Dawson said, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1891)
"PLAYING cards FROM JAPAN. THE history of playing cards, their introduction into
Europe from the East by the gypsies or by the home-returning Crusaders, ..."
3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1909)
"20333 cards written for union catalogue. 1104 cards written for duplicate ...
81053 cards and slips filed. 13930 entries discarded from union catalogue and ..."
4. The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori, Henry Wyman Holmes (1912)
"Exercise with the three series of cards. First series. We give the child the
wooden forms and the cards upon which the blue figure is mounted. ..."
5. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"The cards for miscellaneous books are made up in sets, and sold at the rate ...
In the case of continuations, such as annual reports, cards are issued' from ..."
6. 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 (1881)
"CWT CHRISTMAS cards. L. PRANG & Co., to whom we look annually for new and artistic
designs in Christmas and New Year's cards, offer this year a larger ..."
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