Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

court card

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.89 in modern English

Syllables: court -card
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A king, queen, jack, or sometimes ace in a standard deck of playing cards.

noun

A postcard measuring approximately 4·75″ × 3·5″, in use mainly circa 1894–1902.

British usage

Example Sentences

"The King, his father, wearing a very white sports shirt open at the throat and a very black blazer, sat at a spacious desk whose highly polished surface twinned his upper half in reverse, making of him a kind of court card."
"There are fifty-two outcomes possible when we turn up a card, and if we do it from a freshly and fairly shuffled pack, each possibility has an equal chance. Probabilistic reasoning can then go forward: we can solve, for instance, for whether most draws of seven cards involve two court cards, or whatever."

Etymology

Unlike the numbered cards, these represent people of the kind that might be found at a royal court.

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

court cards (plural)

Synonyms

face card paint picture card

Questions

What does court card mean?: A king, queen, jack, or sometimes ace in a standard deck of playing cards.
Where does court card come from?: Unlike the numbered cards, these represent people of the kind that might be found at a royal court.

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