playing card meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

playing card

nounalso spelled playing-card

Etymology From playing + card.

Card games, Games A piece of specially prepared card stock or thin material bearing identifying symbols such as a number and suit, used primarily for card games, and generally forming part of a deck of such cards.

Synonyms: card, playing card
Related terms: card game
Hypernyms: artifact
Hyponyms: ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, face card, court card, jack, queen, king, joker, hole card, squeezer, trump card, upcard
Coordinate terms: ace, cut, deal, deck, deuce, draw, face card, hand, jack, joker, king, pack, queen, shuffle, trey, wild card
Holonyms: card game, card suit, poker hand
Meronyms: back, face, pip

playing-card

noun

Dated Dated form of playing card.

Among the best and the most tasteful of the productions thus embellished are some new playing-cards, printed by Mr. De La Rue, which, with extreme richness of ornaments, combine all that the most fastidious whist player could desire.1842 January 28, The Standard, number 5487, London, →OCLC, page [2], column 6:
In a dusty shop of a small town in Guangdong I had bought some Mao playing-cards and some Mao cassettes.1993 October 10, Paul Theroux, “China Inc.”, in The Observer Magazine, London, →OCLC, page 16, column 1:

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On my last visit I bought some lettered playing-cards lined up in a frame to spell out carpe diem.2012 December 1, Mary Portas, quoting Sarah Curran, “Shop! Mary Portas on Labour and Wait”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph (Magazine section), London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2012, page 15, column 2: