'Trump' definitions:
Definition of 'trump'
(from WordNet)
noun
A playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps; "the ace of trumps is a sure winner" [syn: trump, trump card]
noun
(card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand; "clubs were declared trumps"; "a trump can take a trick even when a card of a different suit is led"
noun
A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves [syn: cornet, horn, trumpet, trump]
verb
Produce a sound as if from a trumpet
verb
Get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" [syn: outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop]
verb
Play a trump [syn: trump, ruff]
verb
Proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare [syn: trump, trump out]
Definition of 'Trump'
From: GCIDE
- Trump \Trump\, v. t. [F. tromper to deceive, in OF., to blow a trumpet, se tromper de to mock. See Trump a trumpet.]
- 1. To trick, or impose on; to deceive. [Obs.] "To trick or trump mankind." --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To impose unfairly; to palm off. [1913 Webster]
- Authors have been trumped upon us. --C. Leslie. [1913 Webster]
- To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Trump'
From: GCIDE
- Trump \Trump\, v. i. [Cf. OF. tromper. See Trump a trumpet.] To blow a trumpet. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Matt. vi. 2). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Trump'
From: GCIDE
- Trump \Trump\, n. [A corruption of triumph, F. triomphe. See Triumph, and cf. Trump a trumpet.]
- 1. A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff. --Decker. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
- Alfred is a trump, I think you say. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- To put to one's trumps, or To put on one's trumps, to force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion. [1913 Webster]
- But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are then put to their last trump. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Trump'
From: GCIDE
- Trump \Trump\, n. [OE. trumpe, trompe, F. trompe; probably fr. L. triumphare to triumph, to exult, hence, probably, to make a joyous sound or noise. See Triumph, v. i. & n., and cf. Trombone, Tromp, Trump at cards, Trumpery, Trumpet, Trunk a proboscis.] A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry. [1913 Webster]
- We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. --1 Cor. xv.
- 51, 52. [1913 Webster]
- The wakeful trump of doom. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Trump'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Trump'
From: GCIDE
- Trump \Trump\, v. t. To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'trump'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ace,
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- answer,
- artifice,
- beat,
- best,
- best bower,
- better,
- bower,
- brick,
- cap,
- cards,
- clubs,
- contrivance,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- crackerjack,
- deck,
- demarche,
- deuce,
- device,
- diamonds,
- dodge,
- doll,
- dummy,
- effort,
- exceed,
- excel,
- expedient,
- face cards,
- flush,
- full house,
- gimmick,
- go one better,
- good egg,
- good guy,
- good Joe,
- hand,
- hearts,
- improve on,
- improvisation,
- jack,
- joker,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- king,
- knave,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- left bower,
- likely lad,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- move,
- nice guy,
- no slouch,
- outdo,
- outstrip,
- outweigh,
- overbalance,
- overbear,
- overcome,
- overpass,
- overtop,
- pack,
- pair,
- pass,
- perfect,
- picture cards,
- pis aller,
- playing cards,
- predominate,
- preponderate,
- prevail,
- pussycat,
- queen,
- resort,
- resource,
- round,
- royal flush,
- rubber,
- ruff,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- singleton,
- solution,
- spades,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stout fellow,
- straight,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- surpass,
- tactic,
- temporary expedient,
- top,
- tower above,
- tower over,
- transcend,
- trey,
- trick,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition