Phrase guide

playing card

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

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A piece of specially prepared card stock or thin material bearing identifying symbols such as a number and suit, used primarily for card games, and generally forming part of a deck of such cards.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: card-games, games

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: card

Narrower terms: crib, ace, club, deuce, two, diamond, draw, face card, picture card, court card, gaming card, heart, hole card, joker, singleton, spade, spot, stopper, suit, trey, three, trump, trump card, wild card

History

Etymology

From playing + card.

Across languages

Translations

150 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: speelkaart — Translations
  • Albanian: kartë — Translations
  • Western Apache: táhkaʼ — Translations
  • Arabic: وَرَقَة لَعْب (waraqat laʕb) — Translations
  • Arabic: وَرَقَة (waraqa) — Translations
  • Arabic: كُتْشينة (kutšīna) — Translations
  • Arabic: ورقة شدّة (waraʔet šadde) — Translations
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܘܲܪܵܩܬܵܐ (wāraqta) — Translations
  • Armenian: խաղաքարտ (xaġakʻart) — Translations
  • Armenian: խաղաթուղթ (xaġatʻuġtʻ) — Translations
  • Armenian: կարտ (kart) — Translations
  • Asturian: carta — Translations
  • Asturian: baraxa — Translations
  • Bashkir: кәрт (kərt) — Translations
  • Belarusian: ігра́льная ка́рта (ihrálʹnaja kárta) — Translations
  • Belarusian: гульнёвая ка́рта (hulʹnjóvaja kárta) — Translations
  • Belarusian: ка́рта (kárta) — Translations
  • Bengali: তাস (taś) — Translations
  • Bulgarian: ка́рта за игра́ (kárta za igrá) — Translations
  • Bulgarian: ка́рта (kárta) — Translations
  • Burmese: ဖဲ (hpai:) — Translations
  • Burmese: ကတ် (kat) — Translations
  • Catalan: naip — Translations
  • Catalan: carta — Translations
  • Cebuano: baraha — Translations
  • Chinese Cantonese: 啤牌 — Translations
  • Chinese: пэ (pe) — Translations
  • Hakka Chinese: 特濟邦 /特济邦 (thè-chi-páng) — Translations
  • Chinese: 紙牌 /纸牌 (zh-min-nan) — Translations
  • Chinese: khe-jí-báng — Translations
  • Chinese Mandarin: 撲克牌 /扑克牌 (pūkèpái) — Translations
  • Chinese Mandarin: 紙牌 /纸牌 (zhǐpái) — Translations
  • Chinese Mandarin: 卡片 (kǎpiàn) — Translations
  • Chinese Mandarin: 牌 (pái) — Translations
  • Czech: hrací karta — Translations
  • Danish: spillekort — Translations
  • Dutch: speelkaart — Translations
  • Esperanto: ludkarto — Translations
  • Estonian: mängukaart — Translations
  • Finnish: pelikortti — Translations
  • French: carte à jouer — Translations
  • Galician: naipe — Translations
  • Galician: carta — Translations
  • Georgian: კარტი (ḳarṭi) — Translations
  • Georgian: ბანქო (banko) — Translations
  • German: Spielkarte — Translations
  • German: Karte — Translations
  • German: Blatt — Translations
  • Greek: τραπουλόχαρτο (trapoulócharto) — Translations
  • Hausa: kati — Translations
  • Hawaiian: pepa hahau — Translations
  • Hebrew: קְלָף מִשְׂחָק (klaf miskhák) — Translations
  • Hebrew: קְלָף (klaf) — Translations
  • Hindi: ताश (tāś) — Translations
  • Hungarian: játékkártya — Translations
  • Hungarian: kártya — Translations
  • Hunsrik: Spielkaart — Translations
  • Icelandic: spil — Translations
  • Indonesian: kartu — Translations
  • Irish: cárta imeartha — Translations
  • Italian: carta da gioco — Translations
  • Japanese: トランプ (toranpu) — Translations
  • Japanese: カルタ (karuta) — Translations
  • Japanese: トランプ・カルタ (toranpu-karuta) — Translations
  • Japanese: 札 (fuda) — Translations
  • Japanese: カード (kādo) — Translations
  • Kapampangan: baraja — Translations
  • Kapampangan: karta — Translations
  • Kapampangan: ipis — Translations
  • Kazakh: ойын картасы (oiyn kartasy) — Translations
  • Kazakh: карта (karta) — Translations
  • Khmer: បៀ (biə) — Translations
  • Korean: 트럼프 (teureompeu) — Translations
  • Korean: 플레잉 카드 (peulleing kadeu) — Translations
  • Kyrgyz: карта (karta) — Translations
  • Lao: ໄພ້ (phai) — Translations
  • Latin: charta a ludo — Translations
  • Latin: papyprus a ludo — Translations
  • Latin: charta ludens — Translations
  • Latin: papyprus ludens — Translations
  • Latin: papyrus ludens — Translations
  • Latin: charta ludi — Translations
  • Latin: papyrus ludi — Translations
  • Latvian: spēļu kārts — Translations
  • Lithuanian: žaidimo korta — Translations
  • Low German: Koort — Translations
  • Low German: Speelkoort — Translations
  • Luxembourgish: Spillkaart — Translations
  • Macedonian: ка́рта (kárta) — Translations
  • Malay: kad — Translations
  • Malayalam: ചീട്ട് (cīṭṭŭ) — Translations
  • Maltese: karta tal-logħob — Translations
  • Maltese: karta — Translations
  • Māori: purei kāri — Translations
  • Mongolian: хөзөр (xözör) — Translations
  • Navajo: dáʼákaʼ — Translations
  • Norwegian Bokmål: spillkort — Translations
  • Norwegian Bokmål: spellkort — Translations
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: spelkort — Translations
  • Pashto: قطعه (qet'a) — Translations
  • Iranian Persian: وَرَقبازی (varaġ-bâzi) — Translations
  • Iranian Persian: وَرَقِ بازی (varaġ-e bâzi) — Translations
  • Iranian Persian: کارْت (kârt) — Translations
  • Plautdietsch: Spälkoat — Translations
  • Plautdietsch: Koat — Translations
  • Polish: karta — Translations
  • Polish: karta do gry — Translations
  • Portuguese: carta — Translations
  • Portuguese: carta de baralho — Translations
  • Romanian: carte de joc — Translations
  • Russian: игра́льная ка́рта (igrálʹnaja kárta) — Translations
  • Russian: ка́рта (kárta) — Translations
  • Scottish Gaelic: cairt-chluiche — Translations
  • Serbo-Croatian: играча карта — Translations
  • Serbo-Croatian: ка̑рта — Translations
  • Serbo-Croatian: igraća karta — Translations
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȃrta — Translations
  • Sikkimese: ཏ་སི (ta si) — Translations
  • Silesian: szpilkarta — Translations
  • Slovak: hracia karta — Translations
  • Slovene: igralna karta — Translations
  • Spanish: baraja — Translations
  • Spanish: carta — Translations
  • Spanish: naipe — Translations
  • Swahili: karata — Translations
  • Swedish: spelkort — Translations
  • Tagalog: baraha — Translations
  • Tajik: варақа (varaqa) — Translations
  • Tajik: карта (karta) — Translations
  • Telugu: పేకముక్క (pēkamukka) — Translations
  • Thai: ไพ่ป๊อก (pâi-bpɔ́k) — Translations
  • Thai: ไพ่ (pâi) — Translations
  • Tibetan: ཏག་སེ — Translations
  • Turkish: iskambil — Translations
  • Turkish: oyun kağıdı — Translations
  • Turkish: iskambil kağıdı — Translations
  • Turkmen: karta — Translations
  • Ukrainian: гра́льна ка́рта (hrálʹna kárta) — Translations
  • Ukrainian: ка́рта (kárta) — Translations
  • Unami: shkëp — Translations
  • Urdu: تاش (tāś) — Translations
  • Uyghur: قارتا (qarta) — Translations
  • Uzbek: karta — Translations
  • Vietnamese: bài — Translations
  • Walloon: cwårdjeu — Translations
  • Welsh: cerdyn chwarae — Translations
  • Welsh: carden chwarae — Translations
  • Yiddish: קאָרט (kort) — Translations
  • Yup'ik: kaal'taaq — Translations
  • Zhuang: bej — Translations