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Definition of Strong suit

1. Noun. A long suit including high cards.

2. Noun. An asset of special worth or utility. "Cooking is his forte"

Definition of Strong suit

1. Noun. A field in which, or task at which, one is quite capable. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strong Suit

strong gale strong interaction strong interactions strong language strong man strong men strong nuclear strong nuclear force strong nuclear forces strong nuclear interaction

strong nuclear interactions strong personality strong point strong points strong room strong suit (current term) strong typing strong verb strong verbs strongarm

strongarmed strongarming strongarms strongback strongbacks strongbox strongboxes stronger strongest stronghand

Literary usage of Strong suit

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

1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1863)
"It is, of course, possible you may have no particularly strong suit, but you must always have one suit with four cards; and, unless this is trumps, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Doubling by the third hand is universally understood to mean that the player has a very strong suit which he can establish. In response to the double his ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Up to this date ic had been the general practice, when leading a low card from a strong suit, to prefer the lowest card of the suit, irrespective of the ..."

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