Trump : (noun)
1: a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps
[syn: trump card]
2: 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]
(verb)
1: produce a sound as if from a trumpet
2: get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
[syn: outdo, outflank, best, scoop]
3: play a trump [syn: ruff]
4: proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare [syn: trump
out]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump. --1 Cor. xv.
51, 52.
The wakeful trump of doom. --Milton.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Trump : \Trump\, v. i. [Cf. OF. tromper. See Trump a trumpet.]
To blow a trumpet. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Matt. vi. 2).
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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.
2. An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; --
called also ruff. --Decker.
3. A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang]
Alfred is a trump, I think you say. --Thackeray.
To put to one's trumps, or To put on one's trumps, to
force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion.
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.
Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate
them. --W. Irving.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Trump : \Trump\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trumped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trumping.]
To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Trump : \Trump\, v. t.
To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she
trumped the first trick.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
2. To impose unfairly; to palm off.
Authors have been trumped upon us. --C. Leslie.
To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to
fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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