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COURT CARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face
Synonyms:
court card; face card; picture card
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("court card" is a kind of...):
playing card (one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "court card"):
jack; knave (one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince)
king (one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king)
queen (one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen)
