Court Card

  

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Court Card

Definition: Court Card

Court Card

Noun

1. One of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Court Card

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

COURT CARD. A gay fluttering coxcomb. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Court Card

Synonyms: face card (n), picture card (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Court Card

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Plan

Measure, step; stroke, stroke of policy; master stroke; trump card, court card; cheval de bataille, great gun; coup, coup d'etat; clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke; bright thought, bright idea.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Court Card

Specialty definitions using "court card": Face-card. (references)

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Modern Translation: Court Card

Language Translations for "court card"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vale, mbret (Caesar, king), damë (checkers, Dame, queen). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الملك (king, potentate, ruler). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

оньор. (various references)

   

French

  

figure de jeu de carte. (various references)

   

German

  

bildkarte (picture card). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

figurakártya. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ree-chaart (picture card). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ourtcay ardcay

   

Russian 

  

фигурная карта в колоде (court-card). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

figura (face card, figure, form, frame, shape). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

målare (decorator, face card, painter, paintress, paper hanger), klättkort (face card, picture card). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

surat (countenance, dial, face, kisser, map, mien, pan, Phiz, puss, Snoot), resimli iskambil kâğıdı. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

фігурна карта. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Court Card

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-o-r-r-t-u"

-2 letters: curator.

-3 letters: accord, ardour, carrot, trocar, turaco.

-4 letters: actor, ardor, coact, court, cruor, crura, doura, ducat, duroc, durra, occur, octad, tardo, taroc.

-5 letters: arco, auto, card, carr, cart, coat, coca, coda, cord, croc, crud, curd, curr, curt, dart, dato, daut, doat, dorr, dour, drat, duct, dura, duro, durr, orad, orca, orra, rato, road, roar.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-o-r-r-t-u"
 

+5 letters: countercharged, countermarched.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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