Definition of Cards

1. Noun. A game played with playing cards.


Definition of Cards

1. Noun. (plural of card) ¹

2. Noun. card game ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cards

1. card [v] - See also: card

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cards

cardmakers
cardmaking
cardmember
cardmembers
cardol
cardon
cardons
cardoon
cardoons
cardphone
cardphones
cardplayer
cardplayers
cardplaying
cardroom
cards (current term)
cardshark
cardsharks
cardsharp
cardsharper
cardsharpers
cardsharps
cardstock
cardstocks
cardtable
cardtables
cardueline
carduuses
cardy
care

Literary usage of Cards

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1828)
"STAMPS ON cards AMD DICE.] The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Acts regulating the Stamp Duties upon cards and Dice, Mr. G. Dawson said, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1891)
"PLAYING cards FROM JAPAN. THE history of playing cards, their introduction into Europe from the East by the gypsies or by the home-returning Crusaders, ..."

3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1909)
"20333 cards written for union catalogue. 1104 cards written for duplicate ... 81053 cards and slips filed. 13930 entries discarded from union catalogue and ..."

4. The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori, Henry Wyman Holmes (1912)
"Exercise with the three series of cards. First series. We give the child the wooden forms and the cards upon which the blue figure is mounted. ..."

5. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"The cards for miscellaneous books are made up in sets, and sold at the rate ... In the case of continuations, such as annual reports, cards are issued' from ..."

6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1881)
"CWT CHRISTMAS cards. L. PRANG & Co., to whom we look annually for new and artistic designs in Christmas and New Year's cards, offer this year a larger ..."

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