English dictionary
trump
nounPronunciation
/tɹʌmp/
/tɹʌmp/
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- A playing card of that suit.
- Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
verb
- To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
- To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- To supersede.
- To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
noun
- A trumpet.
- Flatulence.
- The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
verb
- To blow a trumpet.
- To flatulate.
noun
- A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.
Example sentences
Diamonds were declared trump(s).
He played an even higher trump.
He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.