card game
English Thesaurus
1. a game played with playing cards (noun.act)
hypernym | : | game, |
definition | : | a contest with rules to determine a winner (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | all fours, high-low-jack, |
definition | : | card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | baccarat, chemin de fer, |
definition | : | a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | blackjack, twenty-one, vingt-et-un, |
definition | : | a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21 (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | bridge, |
definition | : | any of various card games based on whist for four players (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | casino, cassino, |
definition | : | a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | crib, cribbage, |
definition | : | a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | ecarte, |
definition | : | a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | euchre, five hundred, |
definition | : | a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | fantan, parliament, sevens, |
definition | : | a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | faro, |
definition | : | a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | go fish, |
definition | : | a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | four-card monte, monte, three-card monte, |
definition | : | a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | boodle, chicago, michigan, newmarket, stops, |
definition | : | a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | nap, napoleon, |
definition | : | a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | old maid, |
definition | : | a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid') (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | bezique, penuchle, pinochle, pinocle, |
definition | : | a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | piquet, |
definition | : | a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | pisha paysha, |
definition | : | (Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child; the deck is place face down with one card face upward; players draw from the deck alternately hoping to build up or down from the open card; the player with the fewest cards when the deck is exhausted is the winner (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | poker, poker game, |
definition | : | any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | rouge et noir, trente-et-quarante, |
definition | : | a card game in which two rows of cards are dealt and players can bet on the color of the cards or on which row will have a count nearer some number (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | rum, rummy, |
definition | : | a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | long whist, short whist, whist, |
definition | : | a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | discard, |
definition | : | (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | cut, cutting, |
definition | : | the division of a deck of cards before dealing (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | double, doubling, |
definition | : | raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | deal, |
definition | : | the act of distributing playing cards (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | lead, |
definition | : | the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | renege, revoke, |
definition | : | the mistake of not following suit when able to do so (noun.act) |
part holonym | : | call, |
definition | : | a demand for a show of hands in a card game (noun.communication) |
domain member category | : | discard, |
definition | : | (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit (noun.act) |
domain member category | : | deal, |
definition | : | the act of distributing playing cards (noun.act) |
domain member category | : | ruff, trumping, |
definition | : | (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit (noun.act) |
domain member category | : | trick, |
definition | : | (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner (noun.act) |
domain member category | : | shoe, |
definition | : | (card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time (noun.artifact) |
domain member category | : | trump, |
definition | : | (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand (noun.artifact) |
domain member category | : | book, |
definition | : | a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game (noun.group) |
domain member category | : | revoke, |
definition | : | fail to follow suit when able and required to do so (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | unblock, |
definition | : | play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | bluff, bluff out, |
definition | : | deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | ruff, trump, |
definition | : | play a trump (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | overtrump, |
definition | : | play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | crossruff, |
definition | : | trump alternately in two hands (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | exit, |
definition | : | lose the lead (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | lurch, skunk, |
definition | : | defeat by a lurch (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | ante, |
definition | : | place one's stake (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | underplay, |
definition | : | play a card lower than (a held high card) (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | check, |
definition | : | decline to initiate betting (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | pitch, |
definition | : | lead (a card) and establish the trump suit (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | cover, |
definition | : | play a higher card than the one previously played (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | raise, |
definition | : | bet more than the previous player (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | see, |
definition | : | match or meet (verb.competition) |
domain member category | : | reshuffle, |
definition | : | shuffle again (verb.contact) |
domain member category | : | riffle, |
definition | : | shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix (verb.contact) |
domain member category | : | deal, |
definition | : | distribute cards to the players in a game (verb.possession) |
domain member category | : | deal, |
definition | : | give (a specific card) to a player (verb.possession) |
domain member category | : | misdeal, |
definition | : | deal cards wrongly (verb.possession) |
domain member category | : | bid, call, |
definition | : | make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands (verb.possession) |
domain member category | : | fourhanded, |
definition | : | (of card games) involving or requiring four players (adj.pert) |
Visual ArtiKata
Explore card game in ArtiKata.com >