trump
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: Possibly from French triomphe (“triumph”) or Old French triumphe. If so, it is a doublet of triumph and thriambus. Compare German Trumpf.
Inflected forms:
form: trumps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trumped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
pos: noun
examples: Diamonds were declared trump(s).
And now her Heart with Pleasure jumps,
She scarce remembers what is Trumps.
gloss: A playing card of that suit.
pos: noun
examples: He played an even higher trump.
gloss: Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: VVere Iacke Strawe a liue againe,
And I in as good poſſibility as euer I was,
I would lay a ſurer trumpe,
Ere I would loſe ſo faire a tricke.
gloss: An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
colloquial
examples: [W]e permitted no hostile foot to pass over or desecrate his resting place; shall be that which to learn the last trump shall awaken our WASHINGTON.
All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump; the captain begged his pardon.
Brooke was a trump to telegraph right off.
Alfred is a trump, I think you say.
gloss: An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
pos: noun
examples: There be many one that breaketh this carde,[…]and playeth there with oftentimes at the blinde trompe, wherby they be no winners but great losers
Trionfo,[…]also a trump at cards, or the play called trump or ruff.
gloss: A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
pos: noun
gloss: To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
He lost his money at whist after dinner, and actually trumped his partner’s highest spade.
gloss: To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to trick or trump mankind
Wren, who had hoped to make his name with his discovery, immediately put De Corpore aside, hoping that in silence his failure would disappear. He was forced to think again about his future and resolved to seek new territory within the New Philosophy which he could call his own, rather than face the embarrassment of being trumped for a second time.
gloss: To impose unfairly; to palm off.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: Authors have been trumped upon us.
gloss: To supersede.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
The phrase was, and remains, a double-edged sword: a testament to the hard-working and hard-living citizens of the Crescent City and an indicator of the “ah, whatever” shrug hanging over its corrupt politics, its ramshackle infrastructure and its belief that partying trumps all.
gloss: To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: ruff
clown
cheat
Derived words: come up trumps
last trump
nontrump
no-trump
put someone to their trumps
trumpless
trump of doom
betrump
no trump
outtrump
overtrump
trump card
trump out
trump up
undertrump
untrumped
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