Card
/kɑːd/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA playing card.
nounAny game using playing cards; a card game.
Sentence Examples
Can I pay by credit card?
The time has come for you to play your trump card.
She was charged with credit card fraud.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He placed the playing ____ on the table and declared a winning hand.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I sent a birthday ____ to my best friend who lives in another city.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of carte and chart.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"As each card is played in blackjack, it changes the possibilities for both player and dealer by diminishing the number and the variety of cards that may be dealt."
— 1963 January 25, “Games: Beating the Dealer”, in Time:
"Having adopted civil union as their goal, proponents of the Civil Union Bill were sensitive to the need not to overplay the human rights card, aware that there was a significant degree of resistance in the New Zealand […]"
— 2007, Luke McNamara, Human Rights Controversies: The Impact of Legal Form, page 138:
"Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all."
— 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 24:24 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
"As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye […]."
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
""He's a cheery old card," muttered Harry to Jack / As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. / . . . / But he did for them both by his plan of attack."
— 1918, Siegfried Sassoon, The General:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He placed the playing ____ on the table and declared a winning hand.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I sent a birthday ____ to my best friend who lives in another city.