Pronunciation
Noun
trump (plural trumps)
- (cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- Diamonds were declared trump(s).
- (cards) A playing card of that suit.
- He played an even higher trump.
- (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump; the captain begged his pardon.
- 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, pg 19 and 163
- Brooke was a trump to telegraph right off.
- Alfred is a trump, I think you say.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
- French: atout
- German: Trumpf, Trumpffarbe
- Italian: seme vincente, briscola di seme, briscola
- Portuguese: trunfo
- Russian: ко́зырь
- Spanish: pinte, triunfo
- French: atout, carte maîtresse
- German: Trumpf, Trumpfkarte
- Italian: briscola
- Portuguese: trunfo
- Russian: козы́рна́я ка́рта
- Spanish: pinte, triunfo
- French: atout
- German: Trumpf, Ass, Joker
- Italian: asso nella manica
- Portuguese: trunfo
- Russian: ко́зырь
- Spanish: as bajo la manga (colloquial), baza
Verb
trump (trumps, present participle trumping; past and past participle trumped)
- (transitive, cards) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
- He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
- (intransitive, cards) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- 1629, Ben Jonson, The New Inn, Act 1, Scene 3
- to trick or trump mankind
- 1629, Ben Jonson, The New Inn, Act 1, Scene 3
- (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- Authors have been trumped upon us.
- (transitive) To supersede.
- In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
- (transitive) To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
- French: couper
- German: übertrumpfen
- Russian: козырять
- German: trumpfen, einen Trumpf ausspielen
- German: ausstechen
- German: übertrumpfen
Noun
trump (plural trumps)
- (archaic) A trumpet.
- 1611, King James Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52:
- In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible
- 1798, Joseph Hopkinson, “Hail, Columbia”:
- Sound, sound the trump of fame,
- 1611, King James Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52:
- (slang, UK, childish, vulgar) Flatulence.
- The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
Verb
trump (trumps, present participle trumping; past and past participle trumped)
- To blow a trumpet.
- (intransitive, slang, UK, childish, vulgar) To flatulate.
- And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.
Noun
trump (plural trumps)
- (dated, musical instrument) Synonym of Jew's harp#English|Jew's harp.
Trump
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /tɹʌmp/
- Surname
- (politics) Used specifically of Donald Trump (b. 1946), a businessman, television personality and president of the United States of America.
- Russian: Трамп
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