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A king, queen, jack, or sometimes ace in a standard deck of playing cards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: card-games, games
Examples
- 1999: Simon Blackburn, Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy, chapter 6: Reasoning, section 5: Plausible Reasonings, page 212 (Oxford University Press, paperback, →ISBN There are fifty-two outcomes possible when we turn up a card, and if we do it from a freshly and fairly shuffled pack, each possibility has an equal chance. Probabilistic reasoning can then go forward: we can solve, for instance, for whether most draws of seven cards involve two court cards, or whatever.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: face card, paint
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: playing card, card
A postcard measuring approximately 4·75′′ × 3·5′′, in use mainly circa 1894–1902.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, historical
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: face card, picture card
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: playing card
Narrower terms: jack, knave, king, queen
Unlike the numbered cards, these represent people of the kind that might be found at a royal court.
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
оньор
(onjor)
— king, queen, or jack/knave playing card
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Finnish:
kuvakortti
— king, queen, or jack/knave playing card
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Swedish:
klätt kort
— king, queen, or jack/knave playing card
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Swedish:
målare
— king, queen, or jack/knave playing card
