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card game

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any of the many games played with playing cards.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: games

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cards

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: game, amusement, diversion, activity

2

noun

Meaning 2

a game played with playing cards

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cards

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: game

Narrower terms: 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, cribbage, crib, ecarte, euchre, five hundred, fantan, sevens, parliament, faro, Go Fish, monte, four-card monte, three-card monte, Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops, Napoleon, nap, old maid, pinochle, pinocle, penuchle, bezique, piquet, pisha paysha, poker, poker game, rouge et noir, trente-et-quarante, rummy, rum, solitaire, patience, whist, long whist, short whist

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Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

106 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: ама́ца (amáca) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Afrikaans: kaartspeletjie — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Albanian: lojë me letra — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Arabic: لَعْبَة وَرَق (laʕba waraq) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Armenian: թղթախաղ (tʻġtʻaxaġ) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Azerbaijani: kart — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Belarusian: ка́рты (kárty) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Belarusian: ка́ртачная гульня́ (kártačnaja hulʹnjá) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Bengali: কার্ড খেলা (karḍo khela) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Bulgarian: игра́ на ка́рти (igrá na kárti) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Bulgarian: ка́рти (kárti) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Catalan: joc de cartes — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Chinese Cantonese: 咭牌遊戲 /咭牌游戏 — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Chinese Mandarin: 紙牌遊戲 /纸牌游戏 (zhǐpái yóuxì) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Czech: karetní hra — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Czech: karty — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Danish: kortspil — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Dutch: kaartspel — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Esperanto: kartludo — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Esperanto: kartoludo — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Estonian: kaardimäng — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Estonian: kaarti — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Finnish: korttipeli — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • French: jeu de cartes — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • French: cartes — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Galician: xogo de cartas — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Georgian: ბანქოს თამაში (bankos tamaši) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Georgian: კარტის თამაში (ḳarṭis tamaši) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • German: Kartenspiel — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • German: Karten — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • German: Kaddeschbiel — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Swabian: Karrdaschbiel — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Greek: χαρτιά (chartiá) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Hindi: ताश (tāś) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Hindi: कार्ड (kārḍ) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Hindi: ताश का खेल (tāś kā khel) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Hindi: कार्ड खेल (kārḍ khel) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Hungarian: kártyajáték — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Icelandic: kortaspil — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Ido: kartoludo — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Indonesian: permainan kartu — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Italian: gioco di carte — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Japanese: カードゲーム (kādogēmu) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Japanese: トランプ (toranpu) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Japanese: カルタ (karuta) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Kazakh: карта ойыны (karta oiyny) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Korean: 카드게임 (kadeugeim) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Korean: 카드 (kadeu) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Korean: 트럼프 (teureompeu) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Korean: 카드놀이 (kadeunori) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Kyrgyz: карта оюну (karta oyunu) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Latin: ludus chartarum — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Latin: ludus papyrorum — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Latvian: kāršu spēle — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Latvian: kārtis — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Lithuanian: žaidimas kortomis — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Lithuanian: kortų žaidimas — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Lithuanian: kortos — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Macedonian: игра со карти (igra so karti) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Macedonian: карти (karti) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Malay: permainan daun terup — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Malay: permainan kad — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Maltese: logħba karti — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Navajo: dáʼákaʼ — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Nepali: तास (tās) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Nepali: कार्ड (kārḍ) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Norman: gamme dé cartes — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kortspill — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kortspell — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kortspel — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Iranian Persian: بازیِ وَرَق (bâzi-ye varaġ) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Iranian Persian: وَرَق بازی (varaġ bâzi) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Plautdietsch: Koatenspell — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Polish: karty — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Polish: gra karciana — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Polish: gra w karty — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Portuguese: jogo de cartas — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Romanian: joc de cărți — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Romanian: cărți — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Russian: ка́рточная игра́ (kártočnaja igrá) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Russian: ка́рты (kárty) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Russian: игра́ в ка́рты (igrá v kárty) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Serbo-Croatian: карташка игра — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Serbo-Croatian: карте — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Serbo-Croatian: kartaška igra — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Serbo-Croatian: karte — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Slovak: karty — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Slovak: kartová hra — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Slovene: karti — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Slovene: igra s kartami — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Spanish: juego de cartas — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Swedish: kortspel — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Tajik: бозии кортӣ (bozi-yi korti) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Tajik: картабозӣ (kartabozi) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Telugu: పేకాట (pēkāṭa) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Thai: เกมไพ่ — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Turkish: kart oyunu — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Turkish: iskambil — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Ottoman Turkish: اسقامبیل (iskambil) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Ukrainian: ка́рти (kárty) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Ukrainian: картя́рська гра (kartjársʹka hra) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Urdu: تاش (tāś) — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Uzbek: qarta oʻyini — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Vietnamese: trò chơi bài — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Vietnamese: chơi bài — any of very many games played with playing cards
  • Yakut: хаарты оонньуута (qaartï oonňuuta) — any of very many games played with playing cards